realist
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Several readers wrote to us recommending Rushdie’s magical realist epic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
All the same, Dick was full of fun, and he was shrewd, a realist, he “cut through things,” there were no clouds in his head or straw in his hair.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
“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
Even committed realists can work within the musical genre, with an entirely diegetic score and a narrative framed around a concert or a performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024
This book will look, I trust, realist to relativists and relativist to realists: that is how it is meant to look.
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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