Reason and Sample

Reason

Reason noun - A statement given to explain a belief or act.

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Sample and reason are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sample" instead a noun "Reason".

Sample noun - A number of things selected from a group to stand for the whole.

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Reason and sample are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Reason" instead a noun "Sample".

Nearby Words: sampling, sampler, sampled, samp

known	known reason	known sample
good	good reason	good sample
particular	particular reason	particular sample
similar	similar reason	similar sample
Other adjectives: common, specific, original, single, obvious, actual, entire, large, main, new, unknown, weird.

But the apparent reason the album has not been re-released is that Deep Forest failed to get full permission from the anthropologist whose work they did, in fact, sample. Oops.

Source: Hilarious In Hindsight / Music
If, for some reason, a law school doesn't think it was really you that took the test, they can compare the handwriting from the writing sample to a different sample of your handwriting.

Source: Series / Suits
It secretly contains a sample of the G Virus, which is the reason the Tyrant T-103 Type is hunting her down.

Source: Good Luck Charm

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