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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

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

Which prompts Stiller, ever the pragmatist, to think, “Time is valuable.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2025

Like Duke, Washington was above all a pragmatist who preached a gospel of industrial progress.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson



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