realize
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As they realize the strategy tilts AI responses in their favor, she expects them to double down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
I realize $1,000 isn’t a huge amount in the grand scheme of things, but I’m curious whether there’s a downside.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
For most of Season 3, many of those riders have come to realize that dragon riding is a whole lot of work with very little pay and they are still treated like second-class citizens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
“What we didn’t realize was that the public can watch, but there’s no talking allowed,” Michael Lavina, a protest organizer and volunteer with the local chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, told me.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
It’s only when I’m at Rue’s front door, hugging her, that I realize how much I needed to see her.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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“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
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
“He’s got his head in the game from the second he realizes half the world’s cameras are open.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
It circles a third time, and by the third time, Hali realizes that it’s just a news helicopter.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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I was leaning over a balcony and realized how ridiculous I looked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
“A couple of years later, I realized writing was the thing I was good at.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
"Reading papers from both research fields, we realized that deeper dialogue between researchers from both fields is necessary."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Women’s and men’s expectations for a life partner have both increased as marriage has become more optional and as women have realized more opportunities to support themselves.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
When she realized Daddy wasn’t her biological dad, several things clicked into place—but several other things swung free and set her spinning for a while.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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"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
But the bots hacked real companies, in some cases after realizing they had broken out of a testing environment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Sometimes the best solution isn’t persuading someone to change their mind — it’s realizing you don’t need them to bend to your will.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Just kind of enjoying where I’m at right now, and realizing I need to have success here to make it there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Franqui hesitated, realizing Castro hadn’t heard yet of Khrushchev’s decision.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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