as in dreamer
one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world
a latter-day Don Quixote, she's spent her life fighting the state's big logging companies
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Recent Examples of Don Quixote
Against this backdrop, Manolo Bez plays the role of Don Quixote.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
The tourists are not real, either, but icons out of time: the lover Casanova, the ubiquitous Kilroy, Sancho Panza and Don Quixote.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
Castilla-La Mancha, a two-hour drive from Madrid, evokes the castles and windmills of Don Quixote.
—Jessica Benavides Canepa, AFAR Media, 4 June 2025
Dalí lithographs are on display, and each room showcases Gustave Doré’s drawings from a historic copy of Don Quixote.
—Ramsey Qubein, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
The tourists are not real, either, but icons out of time: the lover Casanova, the ubiquitous Kilroy, Sancho Panza and Don Quixote.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
Castilla-La Mancha, a two-hour drive from Madrid, evokes the castles and windmills of Don Quixote.
—Jessica Benavides Canepa, AFAR Media, 4 June 2025
Dalí lithographs are on display, and each room showcases Gustave Doré’s drawings from a historic copy of Don Quixote.
—Ramsey Qubein, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Don Quixote
Noun
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From vengeful resurrections to satanic rituals, shoplifters waging war on capitalism to secret cults, shadow selves to harrowing births, these genre-defying films crown the Dolls as auteurs, protagonists, dreamers, and disruptors.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
10 Sep. 2025
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My friend, the late Dr. Dorothy I. Height, once described me as a dreamer with a shovel in my hands.—
John Hope Bryant,
Time,
6 Sep. 2025
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Later, European romantics would use the word sublime to describe the sensation evoked by confrontation with the grandeur and terror of nature, its existential enormity.—
Greg Grandin
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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This ancient practice has been a source of guidance and meaning for people from all walks of life, not just mystics and starry-eyed romantics.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Don Quixote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Don%20Quixote. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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