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Recent Examples of realist
After all, what is a mindful consumer if not a realist?
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for realist
Noun
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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
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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
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Put the kibosh on quiet cracking, those cynics insist.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 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
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“Realist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/realist. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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