as in utilitarian
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Adjective
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But maybe a different dream of harmony, a literal-minded, utilitarian righteousness, an easy, almost evangelical can-do determination to make everything right?—
Robert Pinsky,
The New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2025 -
That is a utilitarian, morally subjective environment.—
Jake Kring-Schreifels,
TIME,
30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Beyond a point, the story is all implication by way of mundane suggestion, rather than chilling possibility.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
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But as fires continue to ravage the area, the blazes also reflect—and exacerbate—the disparities embedded in the most mundane tenets of L.A. life.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
24 Jan. 2025
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But the underlying facts paint a different picture, suggesting pragmatic rather than political rationale.—
Eric Berger,
Ars Technica,
6 Feb. 2025
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The older-younger generational divide emerges in an entirely different way in the latter episodes, with a growing riff between pragmatic (some would say selfish) Gen Xers and more idealistic and collectivist (some would say guileless) younger millennial and Gen Zers.—
James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Feb. 2025
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“Banausic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banausic. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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