high hopes
noun
: a strong feeling that something good will happen or be true
We had high hopes of winning the game.
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The season had started with high hopes after the club’s record summer spending of $570 million on new players following Slot’s successful first campaign.
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Mark Hodge, NBC news, 30 May 2026
But despite Europe’s most valuable automaker’s high hopes for its inaugural electric product, markets did not respond well to the vehicle.
—Alexa St. John, Fortune, 27 May 2026
As the dust settles on a campaign that began with high hopes and ended with a sense of blessed relief, here is The Athletic’s end-of-season review.
—Paul Taylor, New York Times, 27 May 2026
That’s a boatload of cash for a drug developer and an important sign of the market’s high hopes that AI can fix the costly, lengthy drug development process.
—Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
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Mark Hodge, NBC news, 30 May 2026
But despite Europe’s most valuable automaker’s high hopes for its inaugural electric product, markets did not respond well to the vehicle.
—Alexa St. John, Fortune, 27 May 2026
As the dust settles on a campaign that began with high hopes and ended with a sense of blessed relief, here is The Athletic’s end-of-season review.
—Paul Taylor, New York Times, 27 May 2026
That’s a boatload of cash for a drug developer and an important sign of the market’s high hopes that AI can fix the costly, lengthy drug development process.
—Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
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“High hopes.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high%20hopes. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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