stand to reason
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Yet it would stand to reason, for example, that McDonald’s, which has thousands of restaurants directly in countries under fire and thousands more in places starting to experience fuel shortages, would be affected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
If the click farm was real, it would stand to reason that probably there was money being sent back and forth.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025
“It simply does not stand to reason that the City would agree to sell the stadium site without knowing exactly what they would receive for it,” Hoffer wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2022
It would stand to reason, then, that the entrepreneur would be curious about outsmarting our own creations.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2022
But with millions of puzzle pieces being tossed up into the air, it really did stand to reason that the occasional one would come down in the right place.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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