Example Sentences

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Pragmatically since that didn’t work, he then switched to this negotiation piece.

From Slate • Aug. 15, 2018

Pragmatically, they told her: “Better to do it now than later.”

From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2016

Pragmatically speaking, “it’s important that when you ask for money that people know who you are,” said the publicist R. Couri Hay.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2013

Pragmatically, people fly and they're not going to stop.

From Reuters • Nov. 24, 2010

Pragmatically, then, belief in the automatic sweetheart would not work, and is point of fact no one treats it as a serious hypothesis.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William