realist
noun
a person who tends to view or represent things as they really are.
realists
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pluralof realist.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“We are realists, but we are not worrywarts either,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 2026
It’s a movie for dreamers, realists and romantics alike, the kind of film that’s so fantastic and so painfully human that its brilliant existence is reason enough to believe in good things.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2025
Even worse are the hardheaded dollars-and-cents realists of Wall Street who take this new reality as a given.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
And we need the realists and incrementalists, those who address the here and now.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
Like the realists, we must insist that it is not so difficult to tell good science from bad, as long as you agree that knowledge should be carefully and systematically tested against experience.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
