- present participle of realize.
realizing
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"So I'm looking at all this evidence I had accrued so far that smiling boosts happiness and realizing it flies in the face of my own experiences in the world."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
Released music, everything took off, I’m here, there, everywhere and then finally realizing “Wait, I need balance.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
It’s a song about growing up and realizing you need people around you to survive, but there’s no sense of anything at stake, nothing specific to make it stick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
But Erika is realizing that “island life” isn’t the dream Caribbean escape you might think.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Then, perhaps realizing he had nothing to lose, he snatched the cup and glugged it down.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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