Examples:
He rationalized involving his brother, son and friend in espionage.
He rationalized, for his peace of mind, that by shooting the two Viet Cong he had
derailed a whole chain of events.
She rationalizes that because he looks good in a tuxedo, he must be on her side.
The teacher is creative and adaptive, she shares responsibilities for the environment
with students, and she rationalizes rules in group sessions.
We could try to rationalize these sitings away, but I think there's something to them.
Mappings:
VerbNet: deduce-97.2,discover-84
FrameNet: Justifying
PropBank: rationalize.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 4
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
rationalize_away 1
Examples:
New competitors have entered our Luxemburg market, requiring us to rationalize our processes even further.
Companies should rationalize capital structures during down round financings.
China should rationalize its natural gas consumption as the price of natural gas in the
international market has been relatively high.
Getting the government out of the agricultural subsidy and tariff business is almost
certainly the most important step to take to rationalize our food system.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2, 3
Examples:
The function rationalizes the given expression, removing all square roots from the denominator.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5