realist
Example Sentences
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“I like to describe myself as a realist with high goals,” is all she’d allow.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026
Downing was “adept at switching between the material and the spiritual,” a realist willing to wink at disagreements and who favored “subtlety, sophistication and restraint.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
The 54-year-old Dyche, who was previously in charge at Everton and Burnley, said he was a "realist" about his precarious situation and spoke like a manager resigned to his fate.
From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026
Ms Peggie's claims also include the allegation that she suffered "direct discrimination" because of her "sex realist beliefs" and that she faced "harassment or alternatively victimisation" relating to the internal disciplinary process carried out.
From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025
She was a straight-down-the-line realist, controlling what she could.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Vocabulary lists containing realist
Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941), List 2
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Part 2 Vocabulary (Unit 5)
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