rational

In a sentence

Six example sentences with rational, each labelled with its topic.

• The model assumes every shopper is rational, comparing prices carefully, which is why it predicts panic buying so badly.

  Economics

• Under time pressure even trained analysts abandon a rational weighing of evidence and reach for the first familiar pattern.

  Psychology

• Philosophers still dispute whether a rational choice must be one the chooser could defend aloud to a critical stranger.

  Philosophy

• The court asked only whether the council had a rational basis for the zoning rule, not whether it was wise.

  Law

• A rational investor ignores last week's headlines and asks what the company will earn over the next ten years.

  Finance

• The rational move was to fold the weak hand, but the crowd wanted a bluff and he obliged them.

  Gaming

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More Academic words

• publishing
• controversial
• resource
• perceived
• contrast
• primarily
• distinct
• consumption
• initial
• invest
• involved
• resident