utilitarian
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Despite the large venue and packed-in audience, Sykes created an intimate club vibe, walking onstage in a utilitarian jumpsuit and instantly bonding with the audience over just how weird things have become in present-day America.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
The plane’s posh interior will be notably more opulent than the current Air Force One, which is known for its smaller dated domestic business-class seats and utilitarian conference rooms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
For you, goods and services serve a utilitarian function.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 17, 2026
Critics, meanwhile, argue his advice was narrowly utilitarian and ultimately unhelpful to society.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
They were set in small grassless plots littered with broken things, bricks, planks, crockery, things of a once utilitarian value.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
For standard utilitarians, people are nothing more than the "containers" or "vessels" of value.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2022
To avoid such problems, rule utilitarians argue that we should apply the greatest happiness principle not to each act, but instead as a means of establishing a set of moral rules.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
According to utilitarians, we have a moral obligation or responsibility to choose the action that produces the most happiness.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
According to utilitarians, rules are made to be broken, when you make people happier by breaking them.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2020
But at bottom the Japanese are not utilitarians.
From Japan and the California Problem by Toyokichi Iyenaga
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