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noun
a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
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Origin of reality check First recorded in 1970–75
Words nearby reality check realism ,
realist ,
realistic ,
reality ,
reality-based ,
reality check ,
reality fiction ,
reality principle ,
reality show ,
reality testing ,
reality TV
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How to use reality check in a sentence She's absolutely someone I'd marry, and I just needed a big reality check to grow up and take it seriously.
This year’s American showcase at the Venice architecture biennial offers a reality check to United States’ bombastic self-image.
We begin with a reality check on American history from senior correspondent Janell Ross, who argues that the country is stuck in a pattern of talking about racial inequality but doing little to solve it.
He did caution, though, that our expectations of what polling can — and can’t — do probably need a reality check .
Whether it’s a solution or a reality check , I’m open to any suggestions.
But if Democrats are faced with the reality of a glut of qualified candidates, Republicans are assembling more of a fantasy team.
In this cockamamie get-rich scheme, would they all issue an apology if he cut a check?
We try to avoid going away for too long, so we can check back in.
That is a reality that still eats at Grace Castro and Yvonne Lozoya.
His hero, Bruce Springsteen, is a gazillionaire, but he still manages to come across as a regular guy, so perception is reality.
The intensity of his sensations seemed inexplicable, unless some reality, some truth, lay behind them.
With less intelligent children traces of this tendency to take pictorial representation for reality may appear as late as four.
Thus they become accustomed to act as christians, to become so in reality in his time.
"Very well," said the other, handing him a check for twenty-five dollars as a retainer, and straightway left the office.
Isaacson thought what the world would say, and suddenly he knew the reality of his affection for Nigel.
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British Dictionary definitions for reality check
noun
an occasion or opportunity to consider a matter realistically or honestly
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Other Idioms and Phrases with reality check
An assessment to determine if one's circumstances or expectations conform to reality, as in Time for a reality check—wasn't this supposed to be a money-making enterprise? [Slang ; second half of 1900s]
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