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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sentimentalists
Noun
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But Venegas’ parents were artists above all — photographers specifically, a trade now plied by Yvonne — and as such, romantics at heart and in practice.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2026 -
And for the hopeless romantics among us, there’s confessions of love, yearning, and unlikely lovers.—
De Elizabeth,
Glamour,
17 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In the early 20th century, a group of idealists set out to build a road that would connect towns and showcase the raw beauty of the Columbia River Gorge.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Apr. 2026
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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
Noun
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The utopians invent paradise and the dystopians invent hell.—
Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
30 Apr. 2026
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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
Noun
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Set during the Great Depression, this electrifying musical follows two dreamers whose desire for more leads them into legend and danger.—
Staff report,
Oc Register,
7 May 2026
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Twenty lucid dreamers, including Bark-Huss, spent multiple nights in the lab, trying to work out puzzles in their sleep.—
Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
1 May 2026
Noun
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But political ideologues from both the left and the right seem to prefer histories in which the United States is either all bad or all good.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
12 May 2026
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And given the challenges from both left and right, our best hope is to strengthen a political center that brings together moderates who reject the ideologues on their flanks.—
Joshua M. Davidson,
New York Daily News,
11 May 2026
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“Sentimentalists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sentimentalists. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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