the reason
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"That's the reason why our meeting point is Zoom every week," she laughed.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
What’s more interesting, then, is not the proposal itself, which consisted of only a sentence, but the reason Johnson felt the need to introduce the measure in the first place.
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2026
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- the logic behind it
- the why
- what's driving it
- the backstory
Possible Antonyms
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- an impulse
- just because
- a whim
- for no good reason
