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idealist

[ahy-dee-uh-list] / aɪˈdi ə lɪst /


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He is a situational bear, a situational bull and, almost despite himself, at age 87, a gruff, perpetual, starry-eyed idealist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

As a football idealist, Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim has specific beliefs about how the game should be played - and the best way to win.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025

We’re conscious that the point is to lament an idealist whose life was cut short.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2025

I was always very much an idealist and was like, "Let's just try."

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2024

Years of nongrowing, from being a seventeen-year-old, smooth-faced idealist hunched over a book in his Harlem apartment, to becoming a smooth-faced veteran of twenty hunched over a beer in a post exchange.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers




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