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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Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2024
What sets The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America apart from other books and memoirs that delve into history and legacy is that it’s written through the lens of utopian thought.
—Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 18 Oct. 2024
Adrienne Bitar, Time, 28 Nov. 2019
Did Ivrea’s lefty techno-utopians run afoul of Uncle Sam?
—Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
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Photo : Ex Nihilo Ex Nihilo Chandigarh Express EDP
Named after India’s utopian midcentury administrative capital, Chandigarh Express is a complex concoction of spices and flowers the nation is known for, with an international supporting cast that brings a variety of nuances to life.
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2024
What sets The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America apart from other books and memoirs that delve into history and legacy is that it’s written through the lens of utopian thought.
—Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 18 Oct. 2024
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Both technologies promise even more strife between the health foods crowd and Silicon Valley techno-utopians.
—Adrienne Bitar, Time, 28 Nov. 2019
Did Ivrea’s lefty techno-utopians run afoul of Uncle Sam?
—Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
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That relationship, which was forged during the making of Lopez’s debut album, On the 6, later became romantic, with Diddy and Lopez dating between 1999 and 2001 before calling it quits.Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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Inside His 'Intimate' and 'Great' Life with Blake Lively and Their Family & Juliet imagines what would happen if the title heroine from William Shakespeare's classic romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet would have survived and gotten a second chance at life and love on her own terms.Dave Quinn, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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Big dreamers have busy minds, need the intense focus of their dreams to carry them through life as far as possible.Jim Clash, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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From Chicken Man’s perspective, this guy was a dreamer.Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2024
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Tokyo, though, will be clammy and muggy, while India’s temperatures will make much sightseeing impractical.Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2024
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This wall of separation, however, is increasingly impractical in a world where the information from both these entities is required to produce significant gains in operational efficiency and predictive maintenance.Julian Durand, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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Mercury ignores insightful Uranus but adores the idealistic fantasies of Neptune.Jennifer Culp, Them, 25 Oct. 2024
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There’s reason to believe the vice president would continue the idealistic pursuit of rapprochement with Tehran, despite its consistent failure.Brian Penn, National Review, 23 Oct. 2024
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In the new release, Temple plays idealist scientist Dr. Teddy Paine opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor’s General Rex Strickland — the overseer of a secret research facility dedicated to symbiotes.Raven Brunner, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
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The movie stars Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina, an idealist architect with the power to control time, who is determined to rebuild a city that seems like New York after an accident plunges it into ruins.Marco della Cava, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024
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Learning to not only tolerate different opinions, but celebrate them and maintain respect across ideological lines is a practice that educators can establish early.Meg Little Reilly, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Not surprisingly, Americans were deeply divided along ideological lines.Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2024
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In June 2020, the Small Arms Survey made a quixotic attempt to map the main alliances and rivalries among South Sudanese elites.Jason K. Stearns, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
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Aromas of climbing in a sappy tree as a kid, of grassy hedgerows in France in spring, of maple syrup, molasses, malt balls, lapsang souchong tea and orange juice—a sort of quixotic brew of rounded but novel aromas characteristic of coloroful Cadillac wines.Tom Mullen, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
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“Utopian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/utopian. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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