realization

Mr. Plokhy quotes Nikita Khrushchev’s worry that Americans “would have discovered that we were in a relatively weak position, and that realization might have encouraged them to attack us.”

As they fled the scene, the pair came to a realization: It might not be appropriate for every occasion.

Private-equity realizations—the money made from investment sales—increased to 13.2 billion euros as of the end of June from 11 billion euros a year earlier as exit activity rebounds following a period of downturn.

There are three levels of that realization that we have to go through if we choose to.

This is a nightmare realization of an ambient fear that people of color and gay folks in this country learn to live with.