realization

Example Sentences

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This realization led us to launch a national initiative at Georgetown University’s Center for Youth Justice to find, research, and recognize these burial grounds, and to honor the children buried there.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

That’s clearly a terrible realization given that you and she had such a great relationship.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

The cold realization in this novel is that he can, actually, and without much trouble.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Never mind that Amin, too, has the Red Wind, a realization that occurs during a sequence that, like a few others in “Alpha,” is not immediately apparent is happening in the ’90s storyline or before.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

The nineteenth-century realization that the living cell was no more than a bag of interconnected chemical reactions had launched a powerful discipline fusing biology and chemistry—biochemistry.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee