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realize
verb as in appreciate, become aware of
verb as in accomplish
Strongest matches
Strong matches
actualize, consummate, effect, effectuate, fulfill, materialize, perfect, perform, reify
Weak matches
bring off, bring to fruition, carry through, corporealize, make concrete, make good, make happen
Example Sentences
People are going to be forced to watch their neighbors, their co-workers, their kids’ friends, and their fellow parents get loaded onto planes and deported, and they are not going to like it one bit as they realize that, once again, the cruelty is the point, and that all of this pointless suffering isn’t going to bring back 2019 prices.
We go through a process of consideration and elimination as we realize the show is so bespoke to this venue that to try and capture it for a small screen just wouldn’t make any sense.
“You realize he didn’t speak out loud during that day. Human beings are meant to be convivial and social — the default setting for a lot of us is that we need other people around. Ted’s character Charles is a guy who’s still perfectly vibrant, very sharp, alive in the world, but his life has just gotten very small. And the question is — for him and for the audience — can he go through something that makes him see the value in living a bigger life?”
In his typically whiny book "The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free," Hegseth writes, "Our ‘elites’ are like the feckless drug-addled businessmen at Nakatomi Plaza, looking down on Bruce Willis’s John McClane in ‘Die Hard,’" adding, "But there will come a day when they realize they need John McClane."
“The sooner they realize that, the smarter they’ll be about how to move forward.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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