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- a pragmatic man, not given to grand, visionary schemes
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“Pragmatic.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pragmatic. Accessed 14 December 2019.
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The first known use of pragmatic was circa 1612
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