pragmatic
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He had set out his stall as a sensible, pragmatic leader who would always act in the national interest - a serious man for serious times.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026
Most recently Mr. Burnham has been a mostly pragmatic and mostly successful mayor of Manchester.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
“Lee is trying to walk a line between his leftist roots and a very pragmatic shift,” says Benjamin Engel, a Korean studies professor at Dankook University outside Seoul.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
“The kind of incrementalism that Eric Murphy seems to be doing is something from a bygone era, where people were more pragmatic in the movement and not punished for it,” she said.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026
The practical, pragmatic part of our upbringing wouldn’t allow me to put much stock in the gentle, well-intentioned platitudes people would heap on us a few days later at the funeral.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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