as in romantic
having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality
in this age of giant chain stores, any attempt at operating an independent bookstore must be regarded as quixotic
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Recent Examples of quixotic
On the Github page for the quixotic project, coder ading2210 discusses how Adobe Acrobat included some robust support for JavaScript in the PDF file format.
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Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2025
Yet much like Carter’s earnest but quixotic attempt ...
—Michael S. Rose, National Review, 4 Jan. 2025
Best Buy has a bunch of PlayStation 5 games on sale for super-low prices this weekend, but our top pick is Hideo Kojima's quixotic post-Metal Gear project Death Stranding.
—K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 6 Dec. 2024
As so began a quixotic quest, snowballing into winter, cheered by skiers and snowboarders in Oregon and beyond, to raise about $200 million and wrest Mt. Bachelor from the corporate titans of a consolidating industry.
—John Branch, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2025
Yet much like Carter’s earnest but quixotic attempt ...
—Michael S. Rose, National Review, 4 Jan. 2025
Best Buy has a bunch of PlayStation 5 games on sale for super-low prices this weekend, but our top pick is Hideo Kojima's quixotic post-Metal Gear project Death Stranding.
—K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 6 Dec. 2024
As so began a quixotic quest, snowballing into winter, cheered by skiers and snowboarders in Oregon and beyond, to raise about $200 million and wrest Mt. Bachelor from the corporate titans of a consolidating industry.
—John Branch, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quixotic
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Account hopes to combat misogynistic online content Creators like Andrew Tate provide a pipeline for men seeking advice about romantic rejection, physical self-esteem and economic insecurity to fall into radicalism and misogyny.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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Not a depiction of romantic bliss, but a kind of love song all the same.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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Tapping into the endowment may be impractical for several reasons, including that some of it is legally restricted, but also because some of the unrestricted money is tied up in illiquid assets, such as in hedge funds, private equity and real estate that can’t be easily sold.—
Kara Scannell,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
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Blockchain might revolutionize insurance claim processing while proving impractical for emergency communications.—
Chloe Demrovsky,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Lucas loved the idealistic adventure reels of the ’30s and ’40s where good and evil were divided by a fresh coat of paint.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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The agreement was motivated primarily by the desire for greater economic efficiency and personal convenience, not by idealistic efforts to realize absolute humanist or European federal ideals.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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There would be adverts for iPhones that were utopian with interesting-looking people smiling holding these shiny devices.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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But Scott also looked at German scientific forestry; collective farming in the Soviet Union and Tanzania; utopian city planning in Chandigarh, India, and in Brasília; and Vladimir Lenin’s theories about the formation of revolutionary parties.—
Nikil Saval,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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This, in turn, becomes logically reliant on the idealist paradigm of Consciousness as the fundamental lowest common denominator of reality.—
Carlo Tortora Brayda,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Labour leader Starmer, though, has taken a realist rather than an idealist approach to the president, putting Britain's foreign policy interests above the strong opposition to Trump in the rank and file of his own party.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Quixotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quixotic. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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