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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.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for realist
cynic
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But crypto companies have long maintained that digital currencies are a new, innovative financial product that needs its own set of rules — rules that critics and cynics say the crypto sector would like to shape to its advantage by spending heavily in elections.—
Rafael Nam,
NPR,
19 July 2025
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Gunn and Safran and all of Warner Bros can rest easy after the cynics’ snarking over the first trailer back in December.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
10 July 2025
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“Realist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/realist. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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