rationalize

she couldn't rationalize her urge to return to the cottage.

if we rationalize production, will that mean redundancies?.

Parliament should seek to rationalize the country's court structure.

Life has been rationalized by science.

Up to a point, we can rationalize our pushiness.

The best traders don't try to hide from these unknown variables by pretending they don't exist, nor do they try to intellectualize or rationalize them away through market analysis.