utilitarian

Even as someone who works in food, my first meal of the day tends to veer utilitarian, including on weekends, when I may not eat it until 10 or 11.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

China’s transportation sensibilities are aspirational and urban, where U.S. tastes lean toward the landed and utilitarian.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

Tra Jones, general manager of the new amphitheater and a Long Beach native, said he’s striving to make it feel less stopgap and utilitarian than FivePoint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

For you, goods and services serve a utilitarian function.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 17, 2026

Once the armor is on, I strap on my weaponry: scims and daggers of Serric steel, razor-sharp and graceful, especially compared to the dull, utilitarian weapons we've used until now.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

As Bostrom writes, "for standard utilitarians, priority number one, two, three, and four should … be to reduce existential risk," the fifth being to colonize space.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2022

For standard utilitarians, people are nothing more than the "containers" or "vessels" of value.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2022

For instance, utilitarians would support the use of genetic modification to eliminate disease and disability.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

For utilitarians, which consequences must be considered when determining the rightness of an action?

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

The murmurs and suspicions of these hard and logical utilitarians of the left galled Mr. Gladstone as ungrateful.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by John Morley