realize

Object

• dream: In doing so, states are capitalizing on those who are perhaps most in need of realizing the American Dream.
• futility: Realizing the futility of making her dream a reality, she instead is goaded into prostitution by a persuasive pimp.
• denuclearization: These actions provide a realistic way of realizing the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
• truth: If there is still doubt how can he realize the noble Truths?
• importance: We realize the importance of planning a family cruise is budget.
• optimization: Most businesses have realized that search engine optimization ( SEO ) is important if you want to succeed on the Internet.

Used with why or when

• what: He didn't realize what is wrong with me.
• who: He does not kill the villain, since that coward turns and flees, realizing who is the master.
• why: When I realized why in the morning I couldn't believe it- it's really such an important part of our bedtime routine!
• that: Then I realized that would be giving in, letting the terrorists win.
• where: As we came up the stairs fromt the Underground I suddenly realized just where the hell I was.
• which: Don't you realize which way the times are pointing?

Modifying Another Word

• suddenly: A large amount of medical workers suddenly realize that they are under the spot light.
• soon: I soon realized that without a car in LA, you re dead.
• quickly: What we quickly realized was that there were basically only two choices for our approach.
• fully: They have never been fully realized, however, within the context of French to Russian revolutionary history.
• finally: They finally realized they'd had enough of foreign culture.
• immediately: I went in to see him but immediately realized he was indeed not well.

Preposition: that

• engine: The pilot, realizing that the last remaining engine is also failing, decides on a crash landing procedure.
• person: But then I looked into my mirror and realized that the person I saw in that mirror was me.