is rationalizing
- present progressive of rationalize (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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“What I decided, and some people say this is rationalizing, but I decided that that time dancing was to give me the perspective to be a good patron of dance and patron of the arts.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2021
I followed the “Rosemary’s Baby”-“Stepford Wives” model of inching into this crazy situation and alongside, justifying how the character is rationalizing staying.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2017
At least one customer is rationalizing the spending as the price of returning to innocence.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2015
But old Author Wells is rationalizing long after the fact of young Author Wells.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the thing called "taking thought," the thing for which the best modern word is "rationalizing," is in its nature, inapplicable to all plain and urgent things.
From Heretics by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
