How to Use philosophical in a Sentence

philosophical

adjective
  • He's trying to be philosophical about their decision since he knows he can't change it.
  • And the way it self-corrects is by rule changes and philosophical changes.
    — Faith Salie, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2024
  • This is not a philosophical stance.
    — David Henkin, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Chance is philosophical when asked if his 3-year-old son may one day run the business.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2022
  • And at the core of this is a philosophical disagreement that hasn’t gone away.
    — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Most older folks are more philosophical about life and death than younger people.
    — WSJ, 3 Dec. 2021
  • And that in turn brings up the deep philosophical question of squirrels.
    — New York Times, 11 May 2021
  • Then there are the philosophical issues, which are even harder to parse.
    — Jonathan Zimmerman, New York Daily News, 13 May 2025
  • Like their coach, the Woodridge athletes were philosophical when asked about the mishap.
    — Joe Magill, cleveland, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Some might even say philosophical.
    — Wisdom Iheanyichukwu, Vanity Fair, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Ivan Perez, 53, is philosophical about what caused his life to go off the rails.
    — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The two of them form a bond of sorts and have philosophical conversations about life.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Those are some of the broader philosophical questions that the book starts to explore.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • This round-robin is a great way to show the philosophical differences between the three schools of karate.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2021
  • Despite these philosophical high notes, the book can be a frustrating read at times.
    — Nick Heil, Outside Online, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The dispute is, in some ways, a philosophical question about fair pay among the workforce.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Which is not to say the series, while talky, gets bogged down in philosophical abstraction.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • As for not being able to complete the deal, Cowens is philosophical.
    — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Many of the changes have been philosophical and are difficult to measure.
    — Jamiles Lartey, NBC News, 6 July 2022
  • When asked about their divergent paths over the past few years, Swiatek was philosophical.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
  • All those philosophical questions are great ones, but also, what about each other?
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026
  • If a new philosophical perspective has been calling to you, this is the month to pursue it.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 July 2025
  • This should be accompanied by a philosophical smile and a shrug.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • And at some point, a philosophical debate will need to turn more practical, one way or the other.
    — Arpon Basu, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Dutcher was philosophical about what may or may not lie ahead for his team that has lost two straight for the first time in 64 games.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The stories range in tone from the fanciful to the absurd to the philosophical.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
  • They were found to contain philosophical texts written in Greek.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Beneath the plot of Loki is a great big philosophical debate over free will.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 14 July 2021
  • CeeLo Green doesn’t care to get philosophical with you.
    — Deasia Paige, AJC.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • That’s sort of a bigger-picture philosophical question that is sort of outside of the scope.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2025

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