idealist
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He is a situational bear, a situational bull and, almost despite himself, at age 87, a gruff, perpetual, starry-eyed idealist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Callaghan gives off a scintilla of Matt Damon vibes, but is his own Rudy, keeping his naive idealist free from leading-man tics.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025
And Chinese media describe him as a "technical idealist" - he insists on keeping DeepSeek as an open-source platform.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2025
I was always very much an idealist and was like, "Let's just try."
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2024
“He won’t. The young idealist is trapped,” she said calmly.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Vocabulary lists containing idealist
A Raisin in the Sun
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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