realistically

[ree-uh-lis-tik-lee]

adverb

1. in a practical way.

2. in a way that reflects reality.

Example Sentences

With the Danes having a superior goal difference and facing bottom side Belarus next, Scotland realistically need to at least draw in Piraeus to set up a winner-takes-all showdown at Hampden.

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And we tried to stretch him out but realistically he was good only up to a mile.

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The staccato nature of the writing is helped enormously by the entrancing acting of both Vargas, who breezes through different theatrical realms as though he had wings, and Hernandez, who locks realistically into character.

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Switzerland's David, the thinking goes, cannot realistically take on America's Goliath.

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But negotiations could realistically take longer, Arab mediators and U.S. officials cautioned.

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