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Recent Examples of pragmatism
Then comes the Aquarius moon, cutting through the emotional density with an icy burst of intellectual pragmatism.
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
Still, his government maintains some Chinese financial ties, including a standing currency swap with the People’s Bank of China, showing that pragmatism may temper ideology.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
As Wang attempts to bring a couple back from the edge of crisis, sympathies shift between husband, wife and mistress while emotion, pragmatism and cultural norms collide.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
Right now, Marchenkova’s pragmatism feels especially prescient.
—Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
Still, his government maintains some Chinese financial ties, including a standing currency swap with the People’s Bank of China, showing that pragmatism may temper ideology.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
As Wang attempts to bring a couple back from the edge of crisis, sympathies shift between husband, wife and mistress while emotion, pragmatism and cultural norms collide.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
Right now, Marchenkova’s pragmatism feels especially prescient.
—Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pragmatism
Noun
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The realism is clean, the staging deliberate, the narrative clarity unmistakable.—
Philip Martin,
Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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That verisimilitude functioned as a solvent, lending credibility and urgency to elements of the show that might otherwise register as pure cheese; the medical realism and sentimental flourishes were mutually reinforcing.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Crucially, the tragedies of the film don’t come from a sense of the filmmaker’s cynicism, but from compassion.—
Kambole Campbell,
IndieWire,
3 Nov. 2025
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The unironically chipper clown couldn’t sustain its sanitized image against a growing culture of cynicism.—
Time,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Pragmatism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pragmatism. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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