realist

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Recent Examples of realist After all, what is a mindful consumer if not a realist? Calin Van Paris, Outside Online, 6 July 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 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 Here, Malaysia’s efforts revealed the bind of ethical leadership in a realist system. Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for realist
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Noun
  • Lula, a diplomatic pragmatist, has historically demonstrated a willingness to make concessions if talks are conducted in good faith and premised on mutual respect.
    HUSSEIN KALOUT, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025
  • At once a pragmatist and a romantic, Corry sometimes struggles to keep her scientific brain from intruding on moments of sensory abandon and unguarded feeling.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Put the kibosh on quiet cracking, those cynics insist.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Travis Kelce knows what the cynics might think of his relationship with Taylor Swift — two of the most famous people in America just happen to match up perfectly?
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2025

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