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Yet even today, racial and ethnic equality remains unrealized, and racial entitlement remains a potent force.

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This tax is supposed to give the government one last chance to get a piece of all those unrealized gains and other assets the wealthiest Americans accumulate over their lifetimes.

Many titans of the 21st century sit on mountains of what are known as unrealized gains, the total size of which fluctuates each day as stock prices rise and fall.

The country’s distinct lack of greatness, the argument goes, is not a matter of unrealized ideals.

Southern California, of course, fascinates as we wait and wait for it to spice the playoff with West Coast flavor and as it deals with what Ryan Kartje of the Los Angeles Times described as “an ever-lingering sense of unrealized potential.”

With its extensive coastlines, Iran has the potential to promote this kind tourism but it is, to say the least, unrealized.

It was a promise unrealized until 2012, when construction finally began.

That was at least the pitch, which went mostly unrealized, according to Gezari.

Maugham once confided to Christopher Isherwood his unrealized wish, when he turned seventy, to return to India and study Shankara.

When Susan Lucci earned her first Emmy after 18 unrealized nominations, I stood and cheered.

But the scheme has gone, these sixty years, to the cloudy nether-world of glorious dreams unrealized.

Once, their aim appeared to be a noble possibility, struggling still and unrealized, but unrefuted.

We cannot, of course, be content with an unrealized unity of the Church.

But the way in which they received these last tossed pebbles of metaphor showed him unrealized profundities.

At this moment, wealth seemed within my grasp, and in the next I might be mourning over or cursing my unrealized hopes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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