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How to use the word irrationally in a Sentence?

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It can be very easy to get caught up in the euphoria of a stock market boom and lose sight of reality or behave irrationally, it is always wise to utilize stock market booms to trim investments that have appreciated significantly and use it as an opportunity to rebalance back to your target investment weightings.

Leyla Morgillo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Islamophobia is real. It is a targeted campaign to influence people to dehumanize and irrationally fear Muslims. To fear what we wear, to fear the choice of food we eat, to fear the way we pray and to fear the way we practice our faith.

Imam Gamal Fouda

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

He was somewhat irate, acting a little irrationally.

Geoff Dean

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think China and Russia will say :' Srinivasan Sitaraman backed out of the invitation, the US is the one that is acting irrationally, that is operating irresponsibly, so Both North Korean allies need to ease up on the sanctions to help the North Korea people,' so they have the justification for reducing the sanctions, in some ways, Kim Jong is still playing a masterful game.

Srinivasan Sitaraman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

These crazy voices were prompting me to act irrationally.

Laurel Schlemmer

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This driver was acting irrationally and operating his vehicle erratically ... in the hours leading up to and between these senseless shootings.

Gary Buffo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We spent money because there was a competitor there spending money irrationally, our competitor is definitely not in great shape.

Stephen Zhu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance. Yet in relation to psychic phenomena, committed materialists feel free to disregard the evidence and behave irrationally and unscientifically, while claiming to speak in the name of science and reason. They abuse the authority of science and bring rationalism into disrepute.

Rupert Sheldrake

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas Huxley

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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