realize

"When we are high in the mountains and walking across loose rocks or rubble, you don't realize there could be 120 feet of ice buried beneath your feet."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

“Once I begin painting, though, the image becomes clear. And when it’s finished, I realize that this is the painting that I’ve been trying to make.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

As he started building his name, I loved seeing big headliners watch him and realize they had to follow an absolute crusher.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

They became one of those domestic systems that is so modest you almost feel silly describing it as a system at all, until you realize how often you use it.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

As I walk I realize that this street seems familiar not only because it reminds me of France but because I have been on it before, just a few days ago, with Theo.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

But there is a piece of him that realizes he probably can’t exist anymore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Almost always, when she revisits it the next day, she realizes she doesn’t need any of the stuff she was so excited about the day before.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

“I’ve been doing this work for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this. ...People from San Diego up to Eureka and Humboldt, everybody is mobilizing because everybody realizes what’s at risk.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

There comes a point at which a woman realizes she’s a lot closer in age to Diane Keaton in “Something’s Gotta Give” than Amanda Peet, and she’s OK with that.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

He realizes something that frightens him: Inspector Becker seems to have already found Franz Seemann guilty.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Les Snead had been working in professional football for three decades when he realized that he’d been doing it all wrong.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

So I started putting down ideas, and I realized: Should I reveal that it’s about an apartment right off the bat, or should I wait till the last line of the chorus?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

An air traffic controller realized the mistake a few seconds later, telling the fire crew to "stop stop stop."

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

“That’s when we realized she had forgotten how to swim,” says Hammons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

And suddenly I realized that this too was a message, a last wordless communication among neighbors.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Terekh’s path is one traveled by many peaceful Ukrainians who have embraced the war effort after realizing their skills were needed to blunt Russia’s invasion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Because we’re realizing you probably shouldn’t put all your proverbial eggs — or both of a city’s most beloved sports teams — in one guy’s basket.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

"It's an exciting advancement that brings us closer to realizing the dream of a single assay for universal disease detection."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

“I unfortunately kind of skipped over that part,” he said, “and I’m realizing how important that is now.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

The boy, Toby was realizing, didn’t hate math.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman