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noun

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Adjective
  • Created by cartoonist Jim Davis, the Garfield comic strip debuted in June 1978 and follows the cynical and lazy orange cat and his interactions with his owner, Jon Arbuckle, and fellow pet Odie, the lovable dog.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 July 2025
  • There is a certain business logic to that; from a cynical perspective, if a £10million investment fails to live up to expectations, the financial downside for the buying club is relatively small — and in many cases, he will be sold to somewhere lower down the sport’s food chain.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • However, cynics have long predicted that AVs will flounder among the flocks of cyclists in European cities such as Amsterdam.
    Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
  • Instead, cynics might argue, the exercise was about proving to the White House that Putin was not interested in the peace, or indeed the specific ceasefire proposal, that the Trump administration sought.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Shahn was known as a social realist: a painter of hardscrabble life who registered every spasm and twitch of the body politic, from the Great Depression to Vietnam.
    Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 24 June 2025
  • Prioritization is a realist strategy, and what keeps realists up at night is the threat of a rival great power controlling an economically vital part of the world.
    JENNIFER LIND, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
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“Nihilist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nihilist. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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