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idealistic

[ahy-dee-uh-lis-tik, ahy-dee-uh-] / aɪˌdi əˈlɪs tɪk, ˌaɪ di ə- /


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While literature may give us the most vivid and honest record of the American experience, our architecture gives us the most idealistic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2026

The 14th Amendment is part of what made such visions — however idealistic — possible.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2026

"Martian was once idealistic and full of hope, then his moral compass gets eroded by the things he has to do and the sacrifices that go into it."

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2026

Someone young, idealistic, like the kids they’d never had, would die as part of a well-intentioned but risky move from Hal.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

An idealistic, melancholic Englishman named Maurice Wilson had not been so fortunate when he’d attempted a similarly reckless ascent thirteen years before Denman.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer




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