How to Use pragmatism in a Sentence

pragmatism

noun

• The right person for the job will balance vision with pragmatism.
• Around town, there is a lot of pragmatism about the project.
  — Kevin Rector, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2023
• At home, the test of Mr. Macron’s own pragmatism will come soon.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 30 May 2017
• As for the Murdochs, cold hard pragmatism will rule the day.
  — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022
• Now a punch of German pragmatism will take a crack at it.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
• The need for pragmatism extends to the topic Milei cares about the most: the economy.
  — Bruno Binetti, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2023
• This is not to suggest that this is all about pragmatism.
  — Roger Trapp, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Some countries will feel Trump’s amoral pragmatism as a breath of fresh air.
  — Matias Spektor, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
• Meanwhile, the sporty pragmatism of a leather Fendi bag scores big points for those tired of plain old totes.
  — WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• Lorne’s generous with telling you the black arts of it, the realpolitik of how things get made, the pragmatism.
  — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
• In some cases, the removal of heads was pure pragmatism.
  — Graham Bowley, New York Times, 12 June 2023
• The last word sags with fatigue, or maybe a certain pragmatism, pulling Albert and Celie and Steven back down to earth.
  — The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• They were not roped and tied by ideology when pragmatism was the best path to progress.
  — Gov. Butch Otter, idahostatesman, 8 Jan. 2018
• The same firm that pitched investors on pragmatism this week will be asking investors to bet on wild dreams the next time around.
  — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
• The Bears don't have that luxury, but leave it to Fangio to supply the pragmatism.
  — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2017
• Taken as a whole, though, this was a season infused with a sense of pragmatism.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2019
• The war in Ukraine has smashed the remnants of pragmatism in the Kremlin’s foreign policy.
  — Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2024
• The centrism and pragmatism that gave Tony Blair's Labour Party a decade in power appears to be gone.
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 28 Nov. 2019
• Davis promised to get down to technical details and called for pragmatism on both sides.
  — Nikos Chrysoloras, Bloomberg.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• Douthat sometimes extends this pragmatism to his critiques of the left.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Of course, this bird feeder offers a lot more than pragmatism.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, Southern Living, 19 May 2021
• But if clean energy is to have a chance, pragmatism and profit motive must rule the day.
  — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 27 May 2022
• Members of the elite class in medieval England were not known for their modesty and pragmatism.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
• The decision was based on pragmatism, not racial progress.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2022
• In thrall to their progressive base, the Democrats are not grounded by any semblance of pragmatism.
  — Jay Cost, National Review, 1 July 2019
• But Colvin’s life is itself a rebuke to such pragmatism.
  — The New York Review of Books, 10 June 2019
• That kind of pragmatism has stuck with church leaders, said Mason.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Nov. 2022
• Her clothes reveal a solid sense of pragmatism — who’s going to wear these things?
  — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 27 Feb. 2018
• Yet his latest stance evoked a mixture of anger and pragmatism from fellow Democrats.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 July 2022
• School choice offers Democrats a chance to align with public sentiment and demonstrate a commitment to pragmatism over partisanship.
  — Juan Rangel, Twin Cities, 22 Jan. 2025