rationalize away
rationalise away

There's only one crime I can't rationalize away.

Instinctive responses he tried to rationalize away.

It seems that everything around here can be rationalized away by the dark matter.

Contradictions and absurdities were exposed by the defense but rationalized away by most of the jurors.

That was the only magic he could not rationalize away, and he had worried over that more than anything else since Ov.

"Because damned near anything else can be rationalized away if you refuse to accept responsibility for it, even something that maybe really was your doing."

A 4-29 lifetime record can't be rationalized away.

Then there is the very natural tendency to remember our successes and minimize - or rationalize away - our failures.

Once known as a brilliant technical goaltender, Richter found himself making decisions in net that he cannot rationalize away at this point.

If the results cannot be rationalized away, what is to be made of them?