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realist

[ree-uh-list] / ˈri ə lɪst /
NOUN
pragmatist
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This particularly productive decade is the focus of Voena’s presentation that shows the Italian artist working with reclaimed advertising posters to create abstract décollage canvases that evolved to also include realist elements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Social realist dramas aren’t new and they include award-winning landmarks by Ken Loach and Chloé Zhao.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Plagiarism claims against Arday were first made in July by Nathan Cofnas, a US academic and self-defined "race realist" whose research affiliation with a Cambridge college was terminated in 2024 amid racism accusations.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

"Since day one of our evacuation, I have been a realist about the situation," he said.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Not with worry but with calculation, a new realist, assessing the cold truth.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

“We are realists, but we are not worrywarts either,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 2026

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 the realists should do what they must to win.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025

“I'm a realist. Who says realists can’t have an entourage of fairies?”

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025

Thus we are obliged to recognize that both realists and relativists have a good point.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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