idealistic
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I would chose instead someone young, idealistic, someone on the physical model of Jared Kushner, perhaps.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
Edgar Snow, born in Kansas City, was an idealistic reporter handpicked by the Communist leadership, in Mr. Dikötter’s words, “after careful vetting.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
They are idealistic and impatient, fluent in slogans and sarcasm, and astutely aware that the system they are training to enter may have no particular use for them.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
A sweet, idealistic grade-school teacher, Salim doesn’t share his aging dad’s fiery rhetoric regarding Israel.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026
But a number of idealistic mountaineers continued to insist that a gifted athlete blessed with rare physiological attributes could, after a lengthy period of acclimatization, climb the peak without bottled oxygen.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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