realist
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Primarily a sculptor and printmaker, Catlett worked in the social realist tradition and her work often celebrates the dignity of Black and brown working people, especially women.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
“I like to describe myself as a realist with high goals,” is all she’d allow.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026
The 54-year-old Dyche, who was previously in charge at Everton and Burnley, said he was a "realist" about his precarious situation and spoke like a manager resigned to his fate.
From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026
He was telling me not to do something that I then went and did, which is to become a kind of quotidian, realist, boring writer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
If she had been asked and had chosen to answer the question of whether she was cowardly or not, she would have said that she was a realist.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Vocabulary lists containing realist
Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941), List 2
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Part 2 Vocabulary (Unit 5)
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