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UK
/pɹæɡmˈætɪkli/
]
[ US /pɹæɡˈmætɪkəɫi, pɹæɡˈmætɪkɫi/ ]
[ US /pɹæɡˈmætɪkəɫi, pɹæɡˈmætɪkɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in a realistic manner
we want to build a democratic society, but we must act pragmatically
How To Use pragmatically In A Sentence
- Secondly and more pragmatically is the question of ownership of online space and control of online debate. Online reviews and ownership of social spaces
- He "pragmatically" voted for funding the Obama administration's escalation of the war in Afghanistan. Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org
- Consider this pragmatically, too - if you were in a relationship with somebody of dubious fidelity would you want to rest things on the hope that other women would turn him down when he wanted them?
- He claims he is not a Stoic while prescribing a pragmatically Stoic remedy.
- I think pragmatically the politics are such that we would be wise to resist grants and/or contracts directly to ACORN, Inc. but try and either set up separate corporations … or use existing corporations … that are less overtly moving the money di- rectly into ACORN, Inc., though in truth it would be going there in other ways. Radical-In-Chief
- Sitting like cuckoos in the nests of other birds, these castles were positioned pragmatically to reuse extant defensive features while allowing ready access to wider hinterlands and keeping civilian populations in check.
- Washington the home town and Washington the historic landmark are physically the same but logistically, legally and pragmatically separate entities.
- Most seem to have approached the arrangement pragmatically, with Massine commenting that sex with Diaghilev "was like going to bed with a nice fat old lady". Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance
- But, even more pragmatically speaking, it just makes this area absolutely uninhabitable.
- The response has been to think pragmatically about high-density and very high-rise housing.