pragmatically
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Even so, he completed the commission the same way he says he approaches every large public monument: professionally, pragmatically, and with an understanding that spectacle itself has become part of the business model.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
Nonetheless, President Lincoln decided to pragmatically sidestep the legal contradictions and agreed in the summer of 1862 to a comprehensive prisoner cartel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
It should be managed pragmatically rather than ideologically.
From Barron's • Oct. 24, 2025
He also knows how to approach the storytelling aspect of musical writing pragmatically.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2025
"From now on, pay in bread," says the guard pragmatically.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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