Example Sentences

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While others rant idealistically, Hackett keeps steering everything back to what will play with the affiliates and what the network can sell.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

More idealistically, it’s an experiment for sharing an extraterrestrial signal with members of the public and getting them involved.

From Scientific American • Aug. 3, 2023

Or I would maybe idealistically like to think that.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023

In their earlier years, Facebook, YouTube and especially Twitter cast themselves idealistically as guardians of free expression around the world.

From Washington Post • May 18, 2022

Although his reign may have begun idealistically, Cahokia quickly became an autocracy; in an Ozymandiac extension of his ego, the supreme leader set in motion the construction projects.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann