as in dreamer
one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world
a latter-day Don Quixote, she's spent her life fighting the state's big logging companies
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Recent Examples of Don Quixote
The tourists are not real, either, but icons out of time: the lover Casanova, the ubiquitous Kilroy, Sancho Panza and Don Quixote.
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Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
Sort of like if Don Quixote was 1/10th its length and about YouTube videos instead of chivalric romances.
—Teddy Wayne
june 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
Castilla-La Mancha, a two-hour drive from Madrid, evokes the castles and windmills of Don Quixote.
—Jessica Benavides Canepa, AFAR Media, 4 June 2025
Dalí lithographs are on display, and each room showcases Gustave Doré’s drawings from a historic copy of Don Quixote.
—Ramsey Qubein, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
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Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
Sort of like if Don Quixote was 1/10th its length and about YouTube videos instead of chivalric romances.
—Teddy Wayne
june 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
Castilla-La Mancha, a two-hour drive from Madrid, evokes the castles and windmills of Don Quixote.
—Jessica Benavides Canepa, AFAR Media, 4 June 2025
Dalí lithographs are on display, and each room showcases Gustave Doré’s drawings from a historic copy of Don Quixote.
—Ramsey Qubein, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Don Quixote
Noun
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From vengeful resurrections to satanic rituals, shoplifters waging war on capitalism to secret cults, shadow selves to harrowing births, these genre-defying films crown the Dolls as auteurs, protagonists, dreamers, and disruptors.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
10 Sep. 2025
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My friend, the late Dr. Dorothy I. Height, once described me as a dreamer with a shovel in my hands.—
John Hope Bryant,
Time,
6 Sep. 2025
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This ancient practice has been a source of guidance and meaning for people from all walks of life, not just mystics and starry-eyed romantics.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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That reasoning helped anchor the setting for The Paper inside the office of a newspaper with dwindling resources, a beleaguered staff, and a boss whose belief in the institution borders on the romantic.—
Andy Meek,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Don Quixote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Don%20Quixote. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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