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idealism

[ahy-dee-uh-liz-uhm] / aɪˈdi əˌlɪz əm /




NOUN
rose-colored glasses
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Koch believes researchers may need to reconsider philosophical ideas such as idealism and panpsychism while continuing to apply modern scientific methods.

From Science Daily Jul. 30, 2026

When it steps outside its own borders, the country’s idealism can often augment its realism.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

But his highly anticipated return to the sci-fi summer blockbuster, the brilliant and beguiling “Disclosure Day,” is Spielberg’s most shameless appeal toward idealism yet.

From Salon Jun. 13, 2026

Or would we demand that she compromise her principles because it’s pragmatic to let go of the idealism of youth?

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2026

She didn’t buy into fearmongering and at the same time seemed equally inoculated against any sort of pie-in-the-sky idealism.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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