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- adverb In an
unrealistic manner.
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- adverb in an unrealistic manner
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Examples
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Protected prices remain unrealistically high; businesses in the protected industry continue to offer jobs.
Ricardo's Difficult Idea Eludes Wonks, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Technology watchdogs and campaign groups such as Friends of the Earth and ETC Group initially called unrealistically for a total ban on synthetic biology, even though it lacked a workable definition.
The Guardian World News Adam Rutherford 2012
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Krugman said the Real was priced "unrealistically" at current levels.
MercoPress 2009
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The popstar told The Independent that Indians are not portrayed enough in the media, and when they are it is "unrealistically".
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Krugman said the Real was priced "unrealistically" at current levels.
MercoPress 2009
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As to speed, that is only because of unrealistically low speed limits. yuan: And then there is the massive increase in construction of high-speed rail in virtually every developed nation except the USA.
Seattle light rail: No park-and-ride lots (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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She expected - maybe unrealistically - to remain unidentified, and is now worried about the impact on her family, career and personal life.
Craigslist personals trigger an unintended spotlight Roxanne Roberts 2011
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She expected -- maybe unrealistically -- to remain unidentified, and is now worried about the impact on her family, career and personal life.
Chris Lee scandal: Yesha Callahan, the woman who met him on Craigslist, tells her story The Reliable Source 2011
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The same philosophers who worry that friendship leads us into "bad epistemic conduct"—because our affections lead us to think unrealistically well of our pals—are alarmed at the prospects for "bad faith" among patriots, what with their tendency to think the best about their own country, the evidence be damned.
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That system is unrealistically expensive given the likely available budgets over the years, and competing priorities.
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