pragmatic

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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More Academic words

• articulate
• conceive
• irrational
• virtually
• ethic
• analogous
• equation
• extract
• priority
• statistically
• randomly
• purchase