pragmatic

Example Sentences

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“We respect President Trump,” Sheinbaum said before departing for Spain, displaying the “cool-headed,” pragmatic tone emblematic of her dealings with her bombastic U.S. counterpart.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

This was a genuinely awkward moment for a governor who had pitched herself as a pragmatic centrist, and she paid for it in the headlines.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2026

An accomplished coach such as Thomas Frank, for example, appeared better suited to leading an underdog Brentford side more willing to play his pragmatic style of football than the Tottenham team he managed this season.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

It suggests “a more pragmatic and execution-focused phase of international growth for China’s mining industry.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

The fair taught men and women steeped only in the necessary to see that cities did not have to be dark, soiled, and unsafe bastions of the strictly pragmatic.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson