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realize vs realise

realize

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verb

  1. earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
  2. be fully aware or cognizant of
  3. perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
  4. expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass
  5. convert into cash; of goods and property
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Examples

This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.

Lovecraft dealt not with the supernatural but with the "supernormal," as Joshi puts it -- the unrealized side of material reality.

After a little while the bellboy realized that there was a special on rooms that night and the price for the men's room should have been $25.

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realise

Definitions

verb

  1. earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
  2. be fully aware or cognizant of
  3. perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
  4. expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass
  5. convert into cash; of goods and property
and more 1 ...

Examples

Either the recession is biting harder than I had realised or a lot of people are confused about the boundaries between fact and fiction.

In the end, though, Smith was beginning to realise the futility of trying to liberate a proletariat that seemed quite content to remain unliberated.

And I'm not too stupid to realise this is all transference.

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