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The tragedy has heightened community concerns, the neighbors said, because it forced one to realize "that you don't know who you are living next to."

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Loner Jay has grown up to shun his father’s interests — or anyone’s help, period — an independence that, should he survive, he may come to realize isn’t so different from his dad after all.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

It’s painful to have had a home once upon a time only to lose it, and to realize how much you lost.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Her lawyer told the court Wieland didn’t realize that receiving the payments meant she wasn’t allowed to actually go outside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

I didn’t realize until this moment how badly I wanted him to say the breakup was all him.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

“Maybe at first it felt Big Brotherish, but my mom realizes now that she needs to hand this over to me.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

The Marvel Cinematic Universe can only expand so many times before one realizes it’s not actually going anywhere.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

But there is a piece of him that realizes he probably can’t exist anymore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Almost always, when she revisits it the next day, she realizes she doesn’t need any of the stuff she was so excited about the day before.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

“I don't know. How can I? He's only staying with Dad because he hates Mom, but what happens when he realizes Dad abandoned us a long time ago too?”

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

“I’m talking!” she said, then realized: She wasn’t actually talking — not to a real person, anyway.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

He recalls the moment when he realized that his impressive-seeming Uncle Hal, a great talker, often made vainglorious boasts without “a grain of truth” to them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Dad realized I’d arrived when I produced the 1975 film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

This is a major departure from the historic standard of net realized gains — thus, permitting managers to pocket performance fees on temporary highs that may vanish the next year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

The whine turned into more of an excited yip, and I realized where the sound had come from.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Gillis broke character after realizing his mistake, prompting cast member Mikey Day to incorporate the slip into the sketch.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

“What they’re doing right now is testing alignment gently, realizing that their models are not aligned, and letting them loose anyway,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Any coach who says “I don’t want to know” where a transfer lives to escape accountability might want to start realizing an entire program can go down when they abdicate responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

But realizing them will require infrastructure and standards capable of keeping pace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

“Yes, I would still love us,” I said, angry with myself for not realizing the twins had been blaming themselves for Papá’s absence all this time.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall