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pragmatist

[ US /ˈpɹæɡmətɪst/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈæɡmɐtˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. an adherent of philosophical pragmatism
  2. a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of her actions

How To Use pragmatist In A Sentence

  • One is a practical optimist, the other a level-headed pragmatist.
  • Perhaps this dim-bulb mayor, and the MSM in fawning over Klepto Deb, are confusing pragmatist with pilferer or purloiner or maybe larcenist. Sound Politics: What does "pragmatist" mean?
  • And the heroes of these films are nearly always pragmatists, the middle ground between the emotionalists and cold rationalists around them.
  • She rose to power by being a political pragmatist who took advantage of every opportunity that presented itself.
  • The juristic theory of the state that generated this image was fiercely opposed by pragmatists and pluralists.
  • The key decider during this period -- as in the October Surprise phase -- was Ayatollah Khomeini, who agreed with the pragmatists on the need to get as much materiel from the Americans and the Israelis as possible, Ben-Menashe said in an interview this week from his home in Canada. Printing: Iran Divided & the 'October Surprise'
  • Having conceded so much to the opposition, he has to work hard to secure a middle-of-the-road position - to avoid drifting either to the Platonist right or to the pragmatist left.
  • Thomas I am not a "relativist", I am a pragmatist. Go Pats!
  • Pragmatists, sensing a bottomless well of grubby dishonesty, have called for an amnesty, hoping to encourage names to be named.
  • Sam Houston, pragmatist, had ordered the Alamo and the coeval dust wallow, San Antonio Breixas, abandoned to Santa Ana's army, which Houston correctly foresaw would overrun the small band of defenders. Alamo Rag
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