utilitarian

He takes a more utilitarian approach to his roughly 150-kit collection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

A cute AI agent is likely to generate more traction among consumers than a utilitarian large language model, Steinwold said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

Cole said many African art collectors favor figures and masks rather than the utilitarian and nontraditional objects Wolfe pursued.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

My costume for traveling was utilitarian if a trifle bizarre.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

To avoid such problems, rule utilitarians argue that we should apply the greatest happiness principle not to each act, but instead as a means of establishing a set of moral rules.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

This is a handsome concession of the utilitarians to ordinary sight-seers.

From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres