pragmatic
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Budapest's promise of pragmatic co-operation was worth absolutely nothing, he complained, adding that Hungary's "extremely unfriendly step constitutes an unprecedented and ungrounded escalation".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
“The Polish government is pragmatic, and they are trying to build up the equity market and household participation in it.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
"Don't regulate hypothetical theoretical harm, regulate actual and pragmatic harm," Huang said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
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
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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