pragmatist

Example Sentences

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People who know Ueda describe him as a pragmatist who is branded neither as a hawk nor a dove.

From Reuters

Wicks has always been a study in contrast — a dreamer and a pragmatist, soft-spoken and assertive, light on her feet but the heavy under the basket.

From New York Times

“And I think there will be a struggle. If there are incentives” in the form of gestures by outside powers, he added, then “I think it will be easier for the pragmatists.”

From New York Times

Cuomo is more of a centrist pragmatist — and often traded ideology for compromise.

From Washington Post

But in the latest proxy war for the soul of the party, the pragmatists again beat the ideologues.

From Washington Post