Found in _Psychological Scoence_,

[Wilson Gray]

as quoted in the NYT:

"… _rationalize (or explain away)_ the degree of inequality in society."


Has it really come to this, that readers of a learn <har! har!>
journal need to have a common word like _rationalize_ defined for
them?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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