realistic

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“We’re trying to be realistic about how much money it will take to reopen because it will take significant recruitment efforts,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

“It feels really impossible,” he said, adding that investing seems like a more realistic way to increase his wealth.

From The Wall Street Journal

But just as there’s a difference between depicting chaos and depicting chaotically, there’s a difference between presenting theatergoers with a realistic image of mental illness and driving an audience nuts.

From Los Angeles Times

But it’s also realistic to believe that Trinidad, just by being in the competition, is furthering something of a revolution in the Winter Olympics in general, and in bobsledding in particular.

From Los Angeles Times

But Lincoln Riley, after four years of regular churn with his staff at USC, was also realistic.

From Los Angeles Times