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pragmatist

[prag-muh-tist] / ˈpræg mə tɪst /


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Psychoanalysis, Mr. Phillips suggests, can support this pragmatist approach by helping us navigate that retelling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Despite his hardline stance against the West, Larijani was often described inside Iran as a pragmatist.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Chance handed post-Maduro power to Rodriguez, a former economics minister with a reputation as a pragmatist, says Angela Pachon, special adviser to University of Pennsylvania’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

A pragmatist and political survivor, Larijani is a former nuclear negotiator whose daughter studied in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

Malcolm was the first political pragmatist I knew, the first honest man I’d ever heard.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates



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