pragmatic
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Or the gallant, pragmatic 8-year-old street hawker selling watercress in Victorian London: “All my money I earns I puts in a club and draws it out to buy clothes with.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
“This reflects a more mature and pragmatic consumer attitude among today’s young people,” Zhu said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
At once pragmatic and playful, Anderson seems to be taking on the world these days like someone who’s unraveled a deeper mystery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
It comes after Burnham gave a speech saying he would be "pragmatic" about oil and gas and decisions on new drilling would be made "in due course".
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
In other words, androids equipped with the new Nexus-6 brain unit had from a sort of rough, pragmatic, no-nonsense standpoint evolved beyond a major—but inferior—segment of mankind.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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