REALIZING Synonyms: 100 Similar and Opposite Words

realizing

verb

present participle of realize

as in discovering

to come to an awareness of I just realized that I can't go out to dinner tonight because I'm supposed to babysit for our neighbor

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as in reaping

to receive as return for effort if you deposit your paycheck in a savings account, you'll realize a little interest on it

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Recent Examples of realizing The tree may look small now, but realizing you’ve chosen a tree that’s grown too large for your fence line can be an expensive fix 20 years down the road. —

Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 10 May 2026 Their system isn't intuitive, and common misconceptions leave people exposed without realizing it. —

Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026 Directed by Kyle Balda, The Sheep Detectives stars Jackman as George, a shepherd who reads whodunit novels to his sheep at night, not realizing that his woolly companions actually understand the murder mysteries. —

Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026 Cameron holds the ring in shock, realizing that Tova has been his grandmother this whole time. —

Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026 Without realizing it, that’s what my daughter had done for me. —

Literary Hub, 7 May 2026 This season that for Owen and Teddy has been a big journey of just finding their way back to one another and realizing that there was a path back to each other in the first place. —

Katie Campione, Deadline, 7 May 2026 There’s discomfort with being around my father physically, and realizing there was synergy to those two things. —

Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 6 May 2026 It was driven by millions of individual decisions — families and business owners realizing that a solar panel is a declaration of independence from a volatile grid, and even more volatile global prices. —

Jennifer Granholm, semafor.com, 30 Apr. 2026

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But in the wake of discovering the hantavirus aboard the Hondius, health officials and infectious disease experts have been quick—and virtually unanimous—in trying to quell fears.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026
The mood in Venice is still borderline ecstatic, full of gossip, parties, and people chatting about art in their respective cities, trading business cards, discovering new talent, eating, drinking, and stumbling around, running into old friends.

— Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 8 May 2026