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Recent Examples of realist
In this magical realist gay bedroom odyssey, Matias reminisces about his past encounters and considers his future, while speaking to a fictional figure from Brazilian literature.
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
But the American leaders who midwifed the UN as World War II was still raging were somber realists, not utopians.
—Andreas Kluth, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
Before the publication of Bomarzo, he’d been considered a Gallicized realist who’d transplanted the Proustian mode into roman à clef studies of the Argentine criollo elite.
—Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
And now at the top of the system is Trump, constituting another realist layer—a team captain happy to play for himself alone.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
But the American leaders who midwifed the UN as World War II was still raging were somber realists, not utopians.
—Andreas Kluth, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
Before the publication of Bomarzo, he’d been considered a Gallicized realist who’d transplanted the Proustian mode into roman à clef studies of the Argentine criollo elite.
—Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
And now at the top of the system is Trump, constituting another realist layer—a team captain happy to play for himself alone.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for realist
Noun
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Al-Sudani has billed himself as a pragmatist.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
28 Oct. 2025
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Ever the pragmatist, Moore had an answer.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
Noun
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On the other hand, skeptics and cynics tend to be insistent right now that the clean-up activity is not going to last very long.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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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
Noun
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The activist Left is, in truth, nihilist.—
Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Realist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/realist. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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