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
• As for the Murdochs, cold hard pragmatism will rule the day.
  — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Meanwhile, the sporty pragmatism of a leather Fendi bag scores big points for those tired of plain old totes.
  — WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Yet his latest stance evoked a mixture of anger and pragmatism from fellow Democrats.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 July 2022
• But the key in today’s environment is adding a little pragmatism to the mix.
  — Kj Dhaliwal, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• Springtime is the right time to daydream, but with the Sun moving into heedless Aries by the end of the week, a dash of pragmatism can keep a good trip from going off the rails.
  — Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2021
• Starmer, 61, says his mix of progressivism and pragmatism is the answer to this sense of brokenness.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 8 July 2024
• And, it must be said, the blithe status quo-ism of Mr Biden could be even more off-putting to Mr Sanders’s supporters than her wonkish pragmatism.
  — The Economist, 13 Aug. 2019
• Beneath the fray is a debate over the meaning of pragmatism in policy.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2021
• The self-interest of these leaders has been put on alert as confusion in the region gives way to pragmatism.
  — Fortune, 30 June 2019
• Because, that’s when Javi shows up — and the faith vs. pragmatism debate is relevant once again.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2023
• By doing, and nothing more, with the lucidity and the pragmatism that have always set me apart.
  — Luisa Zargani, WWD, 11 July 2024
• The rise of climate pragmatism is visible in different forms.
  — Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024