utilitarian
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For you, goods and services serve a utilitarian function.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
Critics, meanwhile, argue his advice was narrowly utilitarian and ultimately unhelpful to society.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
I think that, for those of us who love free markets and love capitalism and understand the utilitarian good of capitalism but also the morality of capitalism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
Completed in 1984, the hangar-like space blended industrial materials — metal cladding, stucco, exposed structure and utilitarian forms — with folded, sculptural masses and cheeky artistic moments.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
Here is Bertrand Russell using it to explain the movement called romanticism: The romantic movement is characterized, as a whole, by the substitution of aesthetic for utilitarian standards.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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