idealist
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Amodei is an idealist who represents the historically liberal wing of Silicon Valley, concerned about unleashing AI without proper guardrails.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2025
“A moral man who led an immoral life, an idealist who had betrayed his ideals. No one despised Richard as much as Richard himself.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025
On the other, "she had the restlessness of an idealist with a certain anger at the world as it was", Eve, now 67, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025
I was always very much an idealist and was like, "Let's just try."
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2024
She knew her husband was an idealist, and in the end she’d agreed to his plan.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
The quest for a stable global order has long beguiled idealists and realists alike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Refn: We were both naive idealists and we both had an enormous amount of emotions within us that we were trying to find places to unleash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
"There are Don Quixotes and Sanchos: idealists and pragmatists. Some may find the transparency of crystals fascinating, while others are interested in their smell and whether they're edible," García-Ruiz pointed out.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Lie and Feller were midcentury men — chastened idealists who expected nothing to come easily.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2023
He found all types: idealists, ambitious people, adventurers, those with social resentments, even common criminals.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A Raisin in the Sun
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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