Realization Definition & Meaning

Example Sentences

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“I don’t think we’re early to this realization. I think most companies are late.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Hart keeps up a steady stream of anecdotes and witty repartee, but increasingly the mask slips; underneath it all is the yawning realization that he is utterly alone.

From Barron's

The news-reading public used spirit gossip, spirit cartoons, and spirit love stories as distractions from the realization that there seemed to be no peaceful way forward on the increasingly heated issue of slavery’s expansion.

From Literature

The sales growth included a 10-percentage-point increase from net price realization, primarily due to higher prices for coffee.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Agnus Dei begins in glum realization that there may be no compensation for humanity’s great sins when, again astonishingly without expectation, one of Beethoven’s uniquely wondrous melodies takes over.

From Los Angeles Times