idealist
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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
Callaghan gives off a scintilla of Matt Damon vibes, but is his own Rudy, keeping his naive idealist free from leading-man tics.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025
And Chinese media describe him as a "technical idealist" - he insists on keeping DeepSeek as an open-source platform.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2025
I was always very much an idealist and was like, "Let's just try."
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2024
“I’m supposed to end in the poorhouse? If the young idealist wrote it, he goes to jail for forgery.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Vocabulary lists containing idealist
A Raisin in the Sun
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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