Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sentimentalists
Noun
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For the romantics who fall fast and get attached quickly, the early stages of dating are rarely casual—and can feel as if they’re designed to hurt.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
3 Mar. 2026 -
The dining room — lined with comfy booths and bedecked with Grandmillennial art — is a spectrum of stroller-pushers, youthful friend groups and silver-haired romantics.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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At least there were idealists who dreamed such fancies, and their dreams were the pretext for creating this nation.—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
23 Nov. 2025
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Some idealists set out to build a new community from scratch.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The playwright understood something about the economic reasoning of such an innovation, however, for if the futurists and techno-utopians once imagined that machines would do all of our dreary work to free us to be artists, writers, and musicians, the opposite is now the case.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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Techno-utopians point out that, historically, advancements have led to the explosion of huge new business sectors and jobs.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Manufacturing scale will separate winners from dreamers.—
Ravin Gandhi,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2026
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Such psychedelic experience is echoed in a local belief that the forest spirit appears to dreamers in the form of a tiger.—
Anel Rakhimzhanova,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Apparently, ideologues who put their losing agenda above what’s best for the city’s residents.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
18 Feb. 2026
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In the meantime, a group of ideologues inside the agency were elevated to the role of senior advisers in its top office.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Sentimentalists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sentimentalists. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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