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Recent Examples of cold-eyed These were acts of opportunism by a cold-eyed pragmatist. James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025 Acknowledging this is cold-eyed realism; humiliating and undercutting an ally, perhaps with worse to come in the form of a sweetheart deal for Moscow, is not. The Editors, National Review, 20 Feb. 2025 These were acts of opportunism by a cold-eyed pragmatist. James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025 Acknowledging this is cold-eyed realism; humiliating and undercutting an ally, perhaps with worse to come in the form of a sweetheart deal for Moscow, is not. The Editors, National Review, 20 Feb. 2025 That tense meeting of the Harris clan over Kamala’s career is a metaphor for a generation of idealists passing the torch to their more cold-eyed kids. Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024 Better, these analysts argue, to approach the rivalry in realpolitik terms—as a cold-eyed contest over power—and leave values to the side. Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 16 Mar. 2021 Photo: Butch Dill/Associated Press For a political class that likes to think of itself as a hardened cadre of cold-eyed realists, the leadership of the Republican Party has indulged in comically wishful thinking about the most consequential figure in recent political history. Gerard Baker, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2023 But there’s no denying that his cold-eyed cost-benefit analysis was usually grounded in facts, however inconvenient. Philip Elliott, Time, 17 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cold-eyed
Adjective
  • Established in 1980, Channel Islands National Park consists of five islands — Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel and more detached Santa Barbara — and the marine reserves which lie within 1 nautical mile of the group’s 175 miles of coastline.
    Paul Bersebach, Oc Register, 4 June 2025
  • Anderson built del Toro’s role around the actor, who repays him with a beauty of a performance, embodying the detached charisma of a morally dubious tycoon with cool ease.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2025
Adjective
  • Stock tip: Migrate to icier territories… Aston Villa 6/1 Last five results: WLWWW A two-goal deficit to overcome in the Champions League quarter-final return leg against Paris Saint-Germain next week likely spells the end of Villa’s European aspirations.
    Brett Koremenos, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The relationship between Ye and Cole has been icy for some time.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Until recently, restoring meaningful vision for these patients was a distant dream.
    Shelli Brunswick, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • Eventually, technology allows these distant intimates to share a frame.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • The volcanic plain is on Mars' northern hemisphere far from the planet's frigid poles with access to water sources in the form of shallow ice.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 3 June 2025
  • Could alien microbes frolic in lakes of boiling acid or frigid liquid methane, or float in water droplets in Venus’ upper atmosphere?
    Daniel Apai, The Conversation, 2 June 2025
Adjective
  • The October air was cold, the grass brown, but Emily’s face was hot and her breath fast.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
  • Marc: The beginning — when the titular character is crying, and then immediately switches from sobbing into the camera to being this cold and calculating person.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 8 June 2025
Adjective
  • Wear it over a tank top on chilly nights or pair it with jeans for a sophisticated yet casual look.
    Shea Simmons, People.com, 11 June 2025
  • The impromptu show went on until about 4 a.m. Afterward, a bulk of guests exited the venue — as some lined up to enter — and piled up on the windy, slightly chilly street awaiting their taxis.
    Emily Burns, Footwear News, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • Keep your bedroom cool, dark, and quiet to create an environment that supports restful sleep.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 12 June 2025
  • There are some cool moments here, but the overall effect is unpleasant.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
Adjective
  • Accordingly, Abbas has presided over a period in which many of the nascent institutions created by Oslo are, at best, brittle.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
  • If Elden Ring — and the many FromSoftware games in its lineage — is about individual improvement, about experimenting with playstyles and adjusting your way of thinking until a brick wall becomes brittle before finally crumbling, then Nightreign is about improving as a team.
    Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 29 May 2025

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“Cold-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cold-eyed. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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