realize

They didn’t realize they were speaking with the couple whose home had been violated.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Their loss will come back to bite companies sooner than they realize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

“I built a community around the surf reports. It really blew me away. I didn’t realize that people were so interested.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

While ETFs and passive investing have historically been a good way to introduce diversification, market concentration around megacap tech names can result in portfolios having more exposure to AI infrastructure names than investors realize.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

And for the first time I realize she is stalling because she is nervous.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Her pure, warm soprano shone especially in the lament “Lungi da te, mio bene” with its mournful horn accompaniment, as Sifare realizes the hopelessness of his and Aspasia’s love.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

The Marvel Cinematic Universe can only expand so many times before one realizes it’s not actually going anywhere.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

Equally shattering is a cue surging through a long scene bereft of dialogue, where Alex discovers a tampered-with wine bottle and realizes that he is married to a spy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

But there is a piece of him that realizes he probably can’t exist anymore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

It circles a third time, and by the third time, Hali realizes that it’s just a news helicopter.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

But I realized El-Sayed didn’t have to process that day the way many of us were.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Yet in a different register, one of the most satisfyingly realized displays is the one devoted to Parrish—clearly a labor of love.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Supermassive black holes may have a much larger influence on their surroundings than scientists previously realized.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

But the closer he got to becoming the first deaf major leaguer in nearly half a century, the more he realized he was actually playing for a far bigger audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

As a wintry dawn crept through the windows, I realized it was Christmas Day.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

It’s easy to read the report and come away with the idea that eating too many granola bars or bags of pretzels could be doing harm to your family without you realizing it.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

Another concern raised by the researchers involved the amount of sucralose-6-acetate that someone might consume without realizing it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

OpenAI's researchers denied having had any access to the rival team's work and said they proposed sharing credit before realizing that Buckmaster and Alpoge had fallen short of solving the problem.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

“I describe it like having blurry vision your whole life and not realizing how clearly you can see, until you put glasses on,” Marquez said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Bea thought, realizing that the mountain had erupted.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone