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in reason

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  1. Also, within reason. Inside the bounds of good sense, justification, or practicality. For example, We need to keep our prices in reason, or He promised to do what he can to help us, within reason. [Late 1500s]


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In an article in Reason magazine, the historian James J. Martin described the case as a “glittering press agent’s spectacle aimed at trying the personification of a World War II soldier’s legend, not a person with civil and constitutional rights.”

From Los Angeles Times

Icke’s Oedipus has an Obama-level of confidence in reason and reasonableness.

From Los Angeles Times

“During the first 10 years of the study I had believed ... that the Gombe chimpanzees were, for the most part, rather nicer than human beings,” she wrote in “Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey,” a 1999 book co-authored with Phillip Berman.

From Los Angeles Times

His appeal isn’t rooted in reason or fact; it’s a gut-level, emotionally charged force, a dark mythic archetype tapping into America’s discontent.

From Salon

Endorsements are part of a stream of persuasion based on faith in reason.

From Salon