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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.
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Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
Here, Malaysia’s efforts revealed the bind of ethical leadership in a realist system.
—Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
That Lovett is disturbingly zany; this one is, by unfortunate necessity, a realist.
—Jennifer Harlan, New York Times, 4 May 2025
During an intermission at the Tallinn opera, an older Estonian man caught me staring up at the sprawling, Soviet-era socialist realist ceiling mural, which depicts Communism triumphant.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 7 May 2025
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Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
Here, Malaysia’s efforts revealed the bind of ethical leadership in a realist system.
—Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
That Lovett is disturbingly zany; this one is, by unfortunate necessity, a realist.
—Jennifer Harlan, New York Times, 4 May 2025
During an intermission at the Tallinn opera, an older Estonian man caught me staring up at the sprawling, Soviet-era socialist realist ceiling mural, which depicts Communism triumphant.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 7 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for realist
cynic
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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
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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
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“Realist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/realist. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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