realist

Example Sentences

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“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

Ms Peggie's claims also include the allegation that she suffered "direct discrimination" because of her "sex realist beliefs" and that she faced "harassment or alternatively victimisation" relating to the internal disciplinary process carried out.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025

His words pierced me, hardened though I was, realist as I wished to be.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya