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Recent Examples of pragmatism
According to this expert, the balance between innovation and pragmatism might be the ultimate solution, helping keep Project Management simple and focused.
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Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
Mechanical ingenuity and pragmatism lent itself to its range of quartz and mechanical timepieces for collectors over the decades.
—Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 2 Apr. 2025
In the 2024 letter, Fink introduced a new term – energy pragmatism.
—Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
The big picture: The proposal comes while the White House is pressuring the District, forcing local Democrats to prioritize pragmatism over progressive agenda items.
—Cuneyt Dil, Axios, 31 Mar. 2025
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Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
Mechanical ingenuity and pragmatism lent itself to its range of quartz and mechanical timepieces for collectors over the decades.
—Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 2 Apr. 2025
In the 2024 letter, Fink introduced a new term – energy pragmatism.
—Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
The big picture: The proposal comes while the White House is pressuring the District, forcing local Democrats to prioritize pragmatism over progressive agenda items.
—Cuneyt Dil, Axios, 31 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pragmatism
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pragmatism
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Because what matters, what makes Caravaggio so much more than an illustrator, is less the realism of the sacred image than its translation — through the bodies and faces of ordinary people — from the time of the Gospels to now.—
Jason Farago,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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As the Scientific Revolution spread across Europe, artists became increasingly devoted to realism in still life paintings of plants and flowers.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Apr. 2025
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My hope is to be able to inspire them back off the brink of this sort of politics of cynicism and hate to a politics of hope and aspiration and investment in oneself and one's community.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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In addition to the changes around LGBTQ+ inclusion, 2021 restrictions on a certain traditionalist liturgy outraged a contingent of Catholics who developed a cynicism about Francis’ reforms mirroring that of the Second Vatican Council.—
Liam Adams,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Pragmatism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pragmatism. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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