as in romantic
having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality
a plan to revitalize the city's decaying downtown that proved to be overly ambitious and utopian
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as in dreamer
one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world
in the 19th century utopians founded a number of short-lived socialist communities
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Recent Examples of utopian
Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2024
The good and bad times of life will happen anywhere, but the prospect of living in walking distance of your best friends certainly seems…well, maybe just a little bit utopian?
—Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 17 Dec. 2024
Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 3 May 2021
Both technologies promise even more strife between the health foods crowd and Silicon Valley techno-utopians.
—Adrienne Bitar, Time, 28 Nov. 2019
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Adjective
That’s a vision that would feel utopian even in many democracies, but Machado believes it, and thinks a majority of Venezuelans do too.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2024
The good and bad times of life will happen anywhere, but the prospect of living in walking distance of your best friends certainly seems…well, maybe just a little bit utopian?
—Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 17 Dec. 2024
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But outside the Dorado Beach gates, life is far from a utopian as the decades-long crisis makes essential services, employment, and wealth inaccessible to locals, leaving Puerto Ricans unable to thrive at home.
—Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 3 May 2021
Both technologies promise even more strife between the health foods crowd and Silicon Valley techno-utopians.
—Adrienne Bitar, Time, 28 Nov. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for utopian
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When confronted, deceit turns their romantic evening into a darkly comedic nightmare.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
22 Jan. 2025
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As with the best films of its type, Companion works on more than a surface B-movie level, providing sly satirical commentary about power dynamics in romantic relationships to which more than a few audience members will be able to relate.—
Frank Scheck,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Jan. 2025
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That would be ideal — and MLK was, if anything, an idealist, a dreamer.—
Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Jan. 2025
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In 1980, The Times noted, a report that two hefty gold nuggets had turned up in the Sierra Madre foothills sent a new generation of dreamers back into the hills.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2025
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On top of that, Los Angeles is set to host the 2028 Summer Olympics, which may serve as a looming — albeit impractical — deadline for recovery.—
Denise Chow,
NBC News,
22 Jan. 2025
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Developing advanced tools entirely in-house is often impractical for financial institutions.—
Rahim Harji,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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McCourt’s pitch tries to encompass not just his idealistic vision for the Internet but pragmatic capitalist arguments.—
Clare Malone,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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Your celestial ruler, Venus, is shining an idealistic light on your social circles, long-term goals and dreams, but Jupiter retrograde in Gemini urges you to consider your financial stability and sense of self-worth.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
14 Jan. 2025
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In the new release, Temple plays idealist scientist Dr. Teddy Paine opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor’s General Rex Strickland — the overseer of a secret research facility dedicated to symbiotes.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
25 Oct. 2024
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The movie stars Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina, an idealist architect with the power to control time, who is determined to rebuild a city that seems like New York after an accident plunges it into ruins.—
Marco della Cava,
USA TODAY,
8 Sep. 2024
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Their ideological far-right brethren in Austria may soon form a new government for the first time since World War II.—
Natalia Romik / Madę by History,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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Other analysts take a more nuanced view, painting the party as a coalition of different broadly right-wing ideological factions.—
Brady Knox,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
26 Jan. 2025
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As so began a quixotic quest, snowballing into winter, cheered by skiers and snowboarders in Oregon and beyond, to raise about $200 million and wrest Mt. Bachelor from the corporate titans of a consolidating industry.—
John Branch,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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The goal should not be eradicating EOL—a quixotic effort—but rather determining and defending acceptable risk.—
Ismail Amla,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Utopian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/utopian. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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