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Recent Examples of realist
Murry corrupted and perverted and destroyed Katherine both as a person and a writer […] Her gifts were those of an intense realist, with a superb sense of ironic humour and fundamental cynicism.
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Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
The other—sensitive, almost documentary-realist about the dynamics of modern parenting—deals with the fallout, as a community struggles to confront how such a nightmarish failure of safeguarding could have happened.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
The realist knows that Monday needs to swiftly be proven to be a bizarre anomaly if San Francisco wants to accomplish anything of worth this season.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2025
But Shironitta adds that Takaichi, while seen as conservative and nationalistic, is also a realist.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
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Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
The other—sensitive, almost documentary-realist about the dynamics of modern parenting—deals with the fallout, as a community struggles to confront how such a nightmarish failure of safeguarding could have happened.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
The realist knows that Monday needs to swiftly be proven to be a bizarre anomaly if San Francisco wants to accomplish anything of worth this season.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2025
But Shironitta adds that Takaichi, while seen as conservative and nationalistic, is also a realist.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for realist
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In office he's been a pragmatist and some of his doubters are now key allies on some issues, including Democratic Governor Hochul, who is a partner in his push for universal childcare and now this new tax levied on the most wealthy part-time residents of New York City.—
Leila Fadel,
NPR,
17 Apr. 2026
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Larijani oversaw the bloody repression of protesters in January but was widely seen as a pragmatist, and more moderate than Zolghadr.—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
16 Apr. 2026
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The cynics are figures like Sam Bankman-Fried, who built a fortune off of a crypto exchange called FTX, which crashed and burned in the fall of 2022, eventually sending Bankman-Fried to prison for fraud.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
7 Apr. 2026
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The dollar amount was chosen arbitrarily based on what voters might accept, and some cynics saw it as a move by a pro-development commission to cozy up to environmentalists.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Mar. 2026
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But the fatalist in me feels like this stuff is coming.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
19 Feb. 2026
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As criminal cases have increased against members of violent nihilist groups, related abuse reports have also risen.—
Curt Devine,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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Sirāt was the only Neon contender to miss out on a Best Picture spot at the Globes (its noms came in Non-English Language and Score), adding to the feeling that this nihilist epic is the title most at risk of missing with Oscar.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
12 Dec. 2025
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“Realist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/realist. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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