as in romantic
having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality
a plan to revitalize the city's decaying downtown that proved to be overly ambitious and utopian
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as in dreamer
one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world
in the 19th century utopians founded a number of short-lived socialist communities
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Recent Examples of utopian
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
11 June 2026
None of this is to suggest Brisbane is a utopian fantasy of domestic bliss.
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Alli Forde,
Travel + Leisure,
8 June 2026
Andreas Kluth,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
If not, these elements of Musk’s project are likely to remain more theoretical, just as the dreams of last century’s techno-utopians did.
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Sonja Fritzsche,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
In addition to Momoa as the antihero Lobo, an alien mercenary and bounty hunter from the utopian planet Czarnia, the movie also stars Eve Ridley as Ruthye Mary Knolle and Matthias Schoenaerts as Krem.
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Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
11 June 2026
None of this is to suggest Brisbane is a utopian fantasy of domestic bliss.
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Alli Forde,
Travel + Leisure,
8 June 2026
Noun
But the American leaders who midwifed the UN as World War II was still raging were somber realists, not utopians.
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Andreas Kluth,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
If not, these elements of Musk’s project are likely to remain more theoretical, just as the dreams of last century’s techno-utopians did.
—
Sonja Fritzsche,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
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Baldet didn’t arrive in hospitality with a romantic attachment to restaurants, but a model, a thesis and enough self-awareness to realise neither would survive contact with the floor unchanged.
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Prior to this, the two denied romantic interest both publicly and in private conversations.
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For generations, Chicago has thrived because dreamers could make it here with little to their name and make something of themselves, and the bus is a prime way to do so.
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Before her death in 1993, Mabel McKay — one of the last living dreamers of the Pomo Indian people — shared a prophecy while driving through the Sonoma hills.
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The firm at one earlier point had reportedly offered a service to screen against low intelligence in human embryos, which is a highly controversial and perhaps impractical idea.
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Pretty, functional storage solutions are the perfect antidote to impractical minimalism.
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Chan stars as idealistic rookie officer Shih-Ting, while veteran actor Cheng portrays Hou, a pragmatic policeman approaching retirement.
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The first stretch of the film centers on co-founder Ilya Sutskever (Yura Borisov), the idealistic scientific mind behind the company, before the boardroom power struggle takes over.
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While both parties have long wrestled with warring factions in their ranks, the ideological rift is on full display this year, especially among Democrats, as democratic socialists test just how far to the left voters are willing to go.
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Cruelty, lies, and even deadly violence have been directed at political figures across the ideological spectrum.
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Sagittarius is an idealist sign that can totally relate to this tale of enduring relationships.
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The contact with and dependence on such support arguably also bolstered art’s worldliness and acted as an antidote to the petit bourgeois affinity for idealist mystification.
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“Utopian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/utopian. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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