realize
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I realize this is still a very new situation, but again – I’m curious about the pros and cons.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
A witness to her arrival told me that it didn’t take long for parishioners to realize that the popular politician was in their midst.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
The experience made Kong realize just how much the heat and humidity were affecting her body.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
It was this plain appeal that made me start to realize what feels good—almost calming—about Chris Pappas’ campaign.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026
The lie rolls off his tongue like it’s a fact, and I wait for him to realize that he’s got it wrong.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Your stepmother, whether she realizes it or not, is acting out of fear.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
On her character’s wedding day, Colman traipses into the church like it’s a prank, then nervously straightens up as she realizes this ceremony is serious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Or is about to when she realizes her squatter is Misty Green, minor celebrity, and so grants her a week until eviction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“Maybe at first it felt Big Brotherish, but my mom realizes now that she needs to hand this over to me.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
It is weeks before Scotland Yard realizes that The Duke of Wellington is lying on a rack in the Birmingham station luggage office.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Listening to “Sunburst” now, about the weary rock star, one hears the song as a harbinger of the arduous touring that lay ahead for Mr. Seger as he sustained his realized dream.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
"Then we realized there's a family of self-similar solutions during the radiation epoch of the Big Bang, which might model that expanding wave."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
Whoever owned the house, we realized, loved to cook.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
After a few months, however, he realized it felt “more like a responsibility than a home.”
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
And then he smiled so broadly I realized that I liked him as well as his dog.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
“I think it was more about realizing: ‘Damn, the tide is shifting.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Jackson remembers watching his mother on days she picked up her paycheck and realizing that “you go get money for your time working, and then it’s time to pay bills and get food.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Luz Marte, a 38-year-old lab technician, bought her house a year ago, without realizing the site was a data center.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
It makes about as much sense as Tommy, a human, realizing he is somehow one of Vision’s sons due to a confluence of magic and circumstance.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
I looked down and I was rubbing my arm without realizing it, like I was cold.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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