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The other—sensitive, almost documentary-realist about the dynamics of modern parenting—deals with the fallout, as a community struggles to confront how such a nightmarish failure of safeguarding could have happened.
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Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
The realist knows that Monday needs to swiftly be proven to be a bizarre anomaly if San Francisco wants to accomplish anything of worth this season.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2025
Doing so also gave him freedom to take on different roles - in samurai epics, realist dramas, crime thrillers, and even science fiction - and work with many different directors over the course of his career.
—NPR, 12 Nov. 2025
But Shironitta adds that Takaichi, while seen as conservative and nationalistic, is also a realist.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
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Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
The realist knows that Monday needs to swiftly be proven to be a bizarre anomaly if San Francisco wants to accomplish anything of worth this season.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2025
Doing so also gave him freedom to take on different roles - in samurai epics, realist dramas, crime thrillers, and even science fiction - and work with many different directors over the course of his career.
—NPR, 12 Nov. 2025
But Shironitta adds that Takaichi, while seen as conservative and nationalistic, is also a realist.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for realist
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As a candidate, Klobuchar faced stories of disgruntled Senate staffers who described her as a difficult boss but also distinguished herself on crowded debate stages as a determined pragmatist.—
Bill Barrow,
Fortune,
29 Jan. 2026
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Aussie newcomer Yerin Ha is the juggernaut's new leading lady—a strong yet soft pragmatist whose quiet charisma hooks Benedict, the ton, and, soon enough, audiences everywhere.—
InStyle,
InStyle,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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This is not a home for doomers, cynics, or know-it-alls.—
Daphne Koller,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
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In a real life departure, cynics would say, truth is rewarded in the tests.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
12 Jan. 2026
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Sirāt was the only Neon contender to miss out on a Best Picture spot at the Globes (its noms came in Non-English Language and Score), adding to the feeling that this nihilist epic is the title most at risk of missing with Oscar.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
12 Dec. 2025
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The activist Left is, in truth, nihilist.—
Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Realist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/realist. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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