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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bazarov is an idealist and a brave man, and his aims are rational.
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But at heart he remained an idealist about social issues.
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By bribery - all men are corruptible - and by removing permanently any so-called idealists who stand in our way.
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Cavalier, arrogant, mendacious, and whatever else he was, Mike Straus was also an idealist .
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Gatting, the street fighter; and Gower, the idealist .
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Paine, like many idealists in a hurry, was probably impatient of the slowness of legal remedies for existing abuses.