syllogistic

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syllogistic
Adjective
  • Even with Bailey singing her lovestruck heart out, Rob Marshall's redo doesn't make the same refreshing splash as the 1989 animated classic but gets points for trying with a more logical narrative.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 26 May 2025
  • Therefore, the logical starting point might be to first to prop this thing at least back up to respectability.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 24 May 2025
Adjective
  • Superintelligence is the point at which AI intelligence passes human intelligence in general cognitive and analytic functions.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
  • Simulator technology will provide video and analytic feedback, per Clubhouse540’s website.
    Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • And, of course, doing all these things in the presence of clients just shows a complete lack of rational thought.
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 29 May 2025
  • This is a state where each person settles on a strategy that feels rational given everyone else’s, even if the group as a whole is stuck in mediocrity.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • According to the airline, this sale is valid on flights departing between Aug. 1 and Sept. 30, 2025.
    Andrew Kunesh, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2025
  • Police noted that none of the three occupants had a valid pistol permit.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • That’s basically like taking pieces from five different jigsaw puzzles and figuring out a way to put them together in some coherent order.
    Tony Sachs, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • The administration still has time to settle on a coherent strategy, but the window of opportunity is closing.
    Oriana Skylar Mastro, Foreign Affairs, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • One of his most significant contributions was introducing new mathematical tools to model and incorporate a priori data—which relies on deductive reasoning to make predictions—to address signal recovery challenges.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Knowing a priori which stocks will outperform the market is also much more difficult than reviewing the trends that occurred in the past.
    Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Instead the internet and social media accelerated a process in which the whole notion of an empirical truth has become watered down and distorted.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 15 May 2025
  • Decisions were made on the basis of rigorous empirical research and vetting through the minds of the experts — the men and women who led the agencies.
    Michael Eric Siegel, Baltimore Sun, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Under coach Manolo González, Espanyol has just placed a reasonable 14th in La Liga.
    Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • International agreements require the owners of the patents on standardized technologies to allow others to use them—to license them to any interested party on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms.
    Zoltan Istvan, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025
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“Syllogistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syllogistic. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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