pragmatic

Example Sentences

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“We respect President Trump,” Sheinbaum said before departing for Spain, displaying the “cool-headed,” pragmatic tone emblematic of her dealings with her bombastic U.S. counterpart.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

This was a genuinely awkward moment for a governor who had pitched herself as a pragmatic centrist, and she paid for it in the headlines.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2026

“There will be headwinds…We’ll have to be pragmatic and determined to keep moving forward, but this is the journey that we must make.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

These rules reflect pragmatic judgments about access, reliability, and the realities of modern voting systems.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

In other words, androids equipped with the new Nexus-6 brain unit had from a sort of rough, pragmatic, no-nonsense standpoint evolved beyond a major—but inferior—segment of mankind.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick