Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a pragmatic manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a pragmatical manner.
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- adverb In a
pragmatic manner.
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- adverb in a realistic manner
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Examples
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I suppose pragmatically is the only answer I can give.
A Conversation with Harold Bloom author of How To Read and Why 2010
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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.
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Secondly and more pragmatically is the question of ownership of online space and control of online debate.
Online reviews and ownership of social spaces nwhyte 2010
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These upfront sequences set a base temperature for Ferris' character, which is probably best described as a pragmatically frigid.
Kevin's Review: Body of Lies - Probably the Best Thriller of Its Kind « FirstShowing.net 2008
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And he exhorted the American people to go beyond existing political categories to a new kind of pragmatically oriented change.
Jacqueline Salit: How the Independent Movement Went Left by Going Right 2010
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And he exhorted the American people to go beyond existing political categories to a new kind of pragmatically oriented change.
How the Independent Movement Went Left by Going Right Jacqueline Salit 2010
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And he exhorted the American people to go beyond existing political categories to a new kind of pragmatically oriented change.
Jacqueline Salit: How the Independent Movement Went Left by Going Right 2009
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Instead, he views the judicial task "pragmatically," in his words, as an extension of ordinary policy discourse, which is only mildly constrained by legal texts and doctrines, if at all.
Balkinization 2006
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He "pragmatically" voted for funding the Obama administration's escalation of the war in Afghanistan.
Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Alan Maass 2010
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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 . 2009
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