practical
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The practical consequence is counterintuitive and easily missed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
I’ve come to think of it as a practical, action-oriented cousin of intuitive eating, a framework I find genuinely generous but occasionally maddening in its abstraction.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
"Our agencies did not take all practical steps to protect you," government minister Louise Upston said to his children.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
But perhaps the biggest opportunity for the nationalist leaders lies in the political rather than the practical.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Nor was Galileo, when he invented the hydraulic press, working on some new, practical problem that only a competent engineer could tackle.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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