realist
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Changing course, he committed to being a realist painter of small-town life in Iowa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
At the end of the day, I am a realist; anything can flip a person’s switch from off to blackout rage.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
Several readers wrote to us recommending Rushdie’s magical realist epic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The row first erupted after another academic - self-defined "race realist" Nathan Cofnas, who was sacked from his Cambridge role in 2024 - said he found numerous instances of plagiarism in Prof Arday's work.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
She was a straight-down-the-line realist, controlling what she could.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
“We are realists, but we are not worrywarts either,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 2026
It’s a movie for dreamers, realists and romantics alike, the kind of film that’s so fantastic and so painfully human that its brilliant existence is reason enough to believe in good things.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2025
Even worse are the hardheaded dollars-and-cents realists of Wall Street who take this new reality as a given.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
And we need the realists and incrementalists, those who address the here and now.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
The problem with the realists is that they assume there is nothing peculiar about the method and structure of science.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing realist
Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941), List 2
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