realist
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Plagiarism claims against Arday were first made in July by Nathan Cofnas, a US academic and self-defined "race realist" whose research affiliation with a Cambridge college was terminated in 2024 amid racism accusations.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
"Since day one of our evacuation, I have been a realist about the situation," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
I’m a brutal realist: Bad things happen if this gets botched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
I’m a realist, so I would like to know whether this is a realistic option and what other factors I should consider before making this decision.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
Although McCandless was enough of a realist to know that hunting game was an unavoidable component of living off the land, he had always been ambivalent about killing animals.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
The setting for this two-hander is more abstract than usual for Hunter, who is one of the theater’s outstanding American realists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
“We are realists, but we are not worrywarts either,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 2026
Where are the supposed realists and restrainers who run this Administration?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
And we need the realists and incrementalists, those who address the here and now.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
All human beings are capable of the sort of intellectual activity that tracking requires, and when we investigate a problem we are engaged, as the realists claim, in a sophisticated version of the same activity.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing realist
Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941), List 2
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