How to Use pragmatism in a Sentence

pragmatism

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  • The right person for the job will balance vision with pragmatism.
  • Around town, there is a lot of pragmatism about the project.
    — Kevin Rector, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2023
  • As for the Murdochs, cold hard pragmatism will rule the day.
    — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The need for pragmatism extends to the topic Milei cares about the most: the economy.
    — Bruno Binetti, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2023
  • This is not to suggest that this is all about pragmatism.
    — Roger Trapp, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the sporty pragmatism of a leather Fendi bag scores big points for those tired of plain old totes.
    — WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
  • In some cases, the removal of heads was pure pragmatism.
    — Graham Bowley, New York Times, 12 June 2023
  • The last word sags with fatigue, or maybe a certain pragmatism, pulling Albert and Celie and Steven back down to earth.
    — The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Douthat sometimes extends this pragmatism to his critiques of the left.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But if clean energy is to have a chance, pragmatism and profit motive must rule the day.
    — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 27 May 2022
  • Members of the elite class in medieval England were not known for their modesty and pragmatism.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The decision was based on pragmatism, not racial progress.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2022
  • That kind of pragmatism has stuck with church leaders, said Mason.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Yet his latest stance evoked a mixture of anger and pragmatism from fellow Democrats.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 July 2022
  • But the key in today’s environment is adding a little pragmatism to the mix.
    — Kj Dhaliwal, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Because, that’s when Javi shows up — and the faith vs. pragmatism debate is relevant once again.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2023
  • There is, no doubt, a mix of pragmatism and principle in her position.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
  • For us, though, this is about pragmatism, not politics.
    — Cquinn, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
  • But less than two months into the season, the fact is the Giants are in a position where pragmatism is necessary.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024
  • Outcry against the move was swift, with critics zeroing in on the financial pragmatism of the clubs involved.
    — Jeff Zymeri, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Yet his latest stance provoked a mixture of anger and pragmatism from fellow Democrats.
    — Alan Fram, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2022
  • In a great stroke of pragmatism, Signal chose to be centralized anyway.
    — Kai Ye, WIRED, 23 July 2023
  • One was a course on American pragmatism, the tradition to which his own work belongs.
    — Jordi Graupera, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Even in terms of raw-power pragmatism, Trump's argument has flaws.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Hoffman writes with her usual blend of magic and New England pragmatism, penning an ode to the power of fiction in all of our lives.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 10 May 2023
  • His father's pragmatism was probably correct at the time, but this 604 is capturing the car that once got away.
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 3 July 2022
  • On the left, loud voices accused him of a coldblooded pragmatism that put strategic gains ahead of human rights.
    — Thomas W. Lippman, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The three hourlong episodes are split up not by theme or chronology so much as by the blunt pragmatism of keeping all installments the same digestible length.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2022
  • On the flip side: Couldn’t some level of pragmatism on who the buyers might be show the right collision of fantasy and reality, in the founder’s mind?
    — Byandy Dunn, Fortune, 27 June 2024
  • Yet the tension between pragmatism and party loyalty for Johnson was there from the start.
    — David Sivak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 July 2024

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