realist
Example Sentences
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“The vogue when I was writing ‘Dept. of Speculation’ was for realist doorstopper books that were self-consciously about big ideas,” explains the novelist, who published her now-classic fragmentary novel in 2014.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
Primarily a sculptor and printmaker, Catlett worked in the social realist tradition and her work often celebrates the dignity of Black and brown working people, especially women.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
The 54-year-old Dyche, who was previously in charge at Everton and Burnley, said he was a "realist" about his precarious situation and spoke like a manager resigned to his fate.
From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026
He was telling me not to do something that I then went and did, which is to become a kind of quotidian, realist, boring writer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
This book will look, I trust, realist to relativists and relativist to realists: that is how it is meant to look.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing realist
Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941), List 2
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Part 2 Vocabulary (Unit 5)
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