were rationalizing
- past progressive of rationalize.
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According to her friend Andrew Ward, now in the psychology department at Swarthmore College, “the working assumption in those years was that happy people were rationalizing all the time.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2013
Analyst Greenwald found, they were rationalizing their step.
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