pragmatics
Example Sentences
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“I want an architecture that derives from the pragmatics of the structure,” he says.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2023
Cornsilk told me that it is also a matter of pragmatics.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2021
So it’s everything from the sociology, the etiquette, or what linguists call the pragmatics of it, to literally how to operate the system and set policies.
From The Verge ● May 26, 2020
The voters value executives focused on the pragmatics of delivering the services they want within a budget.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2018
Such questions of chance influence of trifles upon the greater events of life is a constant theme of speculation among the pragmatics; no petty detail is overlooked in the possibility of its portentous consequences.
From Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer
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