In a sentence
Six example sentences with pragmatic, each labelled with its topic.
The founders took a pragmatic route, shipping a spreadsheet to twenty customers before writing a single line of code.
Startups
Her packing is pragmatic, two shirts and a spare battery, because everything else can be bought along the way.
Travel
A pragmatic thinker asks what difference an idea makes in practice, not whether it matches some ideal definition.
Philosophy
The manager took a pragmatic view, keeping the old software one more year rather than risk the busy season on a new system.
Business
The mayor's pragmatic deal gave the developer a taller tower in exchange for a public park on the ground floor.
Politics
The pragmatic coach abandoned the flashy offense and ran the simplest play that worked against every opponent.
Basketball
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Found in 11 published word lists
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)Authoritative
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)Authoritative
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- Magoosh GRE 1000Recognized
- Manhattan Prep 1000 GRE WordsRecognized
- Barron's 333 GRE High-Frequency WordsRecognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
- PrepScholar 357 GRE WordsRecognized
- PowerScore GRE Repeat Offenders (699)Recognized
- SparkNotes 1000 SAT WordsRecognized
- MajorTests SAT 1000Recognized
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