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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
- She contends that U.S. officials overreacted, rather than dealing pragmatically with adoption procedures in a country where poverty and a long-running insurgency fueled widespread child abandonment, impaired record-keeping, and hampered official investigative capabilities. Despite Hurdles, Families Pursue Nepal Adoptions
- The 'correct' standard to set for claims to knowledge is to be decided pragmatically, on grounds of practical convenience.
- In light of the mission to spread the gospel, the division of the churches seemed pragmatically ineffective and theologically scandalous.
- She moved to Raleigh, she remarried, and she had breast cancer—but she is pragmatically Zen about all of it.
- Such 'pragmatically self-verifying' propositions seem too specialized to serve as models for foundational judgements generally.
- Firstly we think 'pragmatically', deploy flat ontological analyses as a mere technological appendage to serve pre-existing political vectors, but this seems to be somewhat paradoxical for it entails a hidden claim that the ontological has no baring upon the political-but this indicates the technological potentials of the philosophy are null and void. Larval Subjects .
- She preferred not to carry a heavy backpack, and at times she pragmatically let men haul it for her.
- Far from being a relaxed, social occasion, the bazaar is pragmatically designed for making money.
- Epistemological realism is misguided theoretically and pragmatically.
- If he had done his homework he would have known that Governor Paiin was a reformer, was elected Governor of Alaska with massive support from independents, and had governed pragmatically from the centre, with broad cross-party support. Powell calls Palin a 'fascinating figure'