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

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

But society’s realization that birds were a finite resource and worth saving makes for a hell of a story.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

I sat up, heart pounding, slapping at the blank wall for the light switch until the terrible realization dawned on me that I was not in my own room.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt