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Recent Examples of Don Quixote Sort of like if Don Quixote was 1/10th its length and about YouTube videos instead of chivalric romances. Teddy Wayne june 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 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 In the musical’s book, Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes entertains his fellow prison inmates with his tale of Don Quixote, an elderly and confused but optimistic man who imagines himself a knight on a quest to battle giants and protect fair maidens. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for Don Quixote
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • That reasoning helped anchor the setting for The Paper inside the office of a newspaper with dwindling resources, a beleaguered staff, and a boss whose belief in the institution borders on the romantic.
    Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • This book is the perfect read for hopeless romantics and for those who believe that love and healing have the power to transcend lifetimes.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 14 Aug. 2025

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