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idealism

[ahy-dee-uh-liz-uhm] / aɪˈdi əˌlɪz əm /




NOUN
rose-colored glasses
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Based on these challenges, Koch suggests it may be necessary to revisit older philosophical ideas like idealism or panpsychism.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

Players themselves were caught up in the strife and idealism of the era, Mr. Gittlitz shows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The scene that best defines the story’s idealism happens long before Dunk gets clunked in the head or skewered by a lance.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

Oscar, meanwhile, his idealism reawakened, sees an opportunity for an underprivileged kid with raw talent to escape her meager existence.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

In the late sixties, civil rights activists might have harnessed the great idealism that the southern movement inspired in Americans.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez




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