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noun

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Recent Examples of idealist
Adjective
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 The film’s first trailer released on Monday, featuring Adam Driver as an idealist architect up against Giancarlo Esposito as a pragmatist mayor. Zoe G Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2024
Noun
But Loktev is quick to correct anyone who perceives My Undesirable Friends as a snapshot of idealists under duress. Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2025 Skye acts similarly and is an idealist, never criticizing their views. Lisa Stardust, People.com, 16 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for idealist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for idealist
Adjective
  • However, five episodes later, only five couples left the pods engaged and set out for a romantic getaway.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The romantic sparks transcended the boundaries of the screen, with the pair dating in real life from 2007 to 2010.
    Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The bubble-ists think that the Coreweave people are hopeless dreamers at best and shysters at worst.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The actress, model, and singer portrayed the altruistic dreamer Lani McKenzie on season 8 of the action series, which centered on the exploits of a group of Los Angeles County lifeguards.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The trend for the last twenty years is for a Balkanized internet—not the idealistic worldwide web, but local internet without much access to the outside.
    Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Tensions arise when a struggling, idealistic poet meets his girlfriend’s family at their idyllic, hillside countryside home in Hong Sang-soo’s latest feature — a quietly profound meditation on the complexities of filial love and familial strife.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • For apartment residents or those without garages, the lack of charging options makes EV adoption impractical.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The 2025 Wrangler Rubicon 4xe is absurd, impractical, overpriced, and an odd combination of power – which is exactly why people should love it.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Commissioned by Lincoln Center, the solarpunk narrative explores themes of survival, climate reckoning, and generational power struggles aboard a floating utopian colony in the Pacific Ocean.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Ramírez planted the flag in the infield grass before Slider grabbed it, engaged with a sea of fans who didn’t want to abandon the utopian setting at the ballpark, and then handed it to David Fry.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In the 1950s and 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union competed for influence in Asia and Africa, packing their ideological visions in the guise of development, and luring modernizing Asian and African leaders with loans and technical assistance in dam building and hydraulics.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Related Stories His latest is a blunt cinematic instrument — loud, loaded and bursting with carnage and ideological angst.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Many of Herzog’s films capture that sense of a quixotic, even bizarre quest, an antihero searching for some kind of truth that may be obvious only to himself.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
  • His performance here most recalls his tragicomic portrayal of John Brown, the heroic but unhinged abolitionist whose quixotic raid on Harpers Ferry helped catalyze the Civil War, in Showtime’s 2020 adaptation of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird.
    Judy Berman, Time, 23 Sep. 2025

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“Idealist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idealist. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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