How to Use optimist in a Sentence

optimist

noun

• So to the optimist, the Mets have more time to turn it around.
  — Tim Britton, New York Times, 4 May 2026
• Or maybe the tech optimists are right and everything is AI now.
  — Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 20 Apr. 2026
• Agell admits to being a chronic optimist but says this was never about one man.
  — Tamara Keith, NPR, 14 July 2026
• Every time an incident like this happens, the optimist in me thinks perhaps this will be a turning point.
  — CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
• Every time an incident like this happens, the optimist in me thinks, perhaps this will be a turning point.
  — CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
• But optimists are also right that AI has real promise.
  — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• Value for money has been next to nil and even an eternal optimist would be hard-pressed to visualise a redemption arc.
  — Phil Hay, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
• Some optimists even see hints of a ’60s-style resurgence with bright young filmmakers creating smart young movies.
  — Peter Bart, Deadline, 25 June 2026
• Utah seems to have found the midpoint between the optimist’s opinion of Trocheck and the pessimist’s and paid accordingly.
  — Corey Pronman, New York Times, 1 July 2026
• Advertisement If Rogen was the optimist, did that make Wilde the pessimist?
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 26 June 2026
• Ever the optimist, Obama shifted out of his defensive posture.
  — Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
• But for every optimist backing Musk’s bid to establish a human colony on Mars is an investor on earth wondering if the plan will ever take off.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 June 2026
• Perkins still identifies as the optimist from 2022, albeit one tempered by realism.
  — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 12 May 2026
• Roberts, the relentless optimist, understands this.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 12 May 2026
• Techno-optimists argue that AI is reshaping human work, not replacing it.
  — Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2026
• Her family, from Pinar del Río, raised her to be an optimist that finds the best in every situation and the ability to maked people feel welcome.
  — Sarah Moreno may 31, Miami Herald, 31 May 2026
• After a wildfire, the optimist waits patiently for the eventual return of squirrels, birds and other forest residents.
  — The Los Angeles Times, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
• Reading rates might fluctuate, but optimists argue that the long arc of history points toward universal literacy.
  — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
• In the great debate over how to address the national debt crisis, optimists suggest that expanding the economy is preferable to cutting federal spending.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 2 July 2026
• Wall Street optimists in good company BofA’s research team isn’t alone in reaching for history as a rebuttal to panic.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 4 May 2026
• The optimists in our midst are hoping for a big improvement on that and that one or both of them will land in the nine-to-16 range, but more than half of y’all are thinking bottom half of the league, and that’s more defensible.
  — Josh Kendall, New York Times, 16 July 2026
• More than anything else, that team proved what a romantic optimist Keegan was, to dream of playing football like that in the second tier, and to be brave enough to deliver it, telling his players to go out and entertain the fans.
  — James Pearce, New York Times, 22 July 2026
• Tech optimists may point to the benefits screens can have for individual tutoring or supplemental materials.
  — Abby McCloskey, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
• Pessimists outnumber optimists by 16 percentage points.
  — Will Johnson, Time, 28 Apr. 2026
• Finally, of course, there are the ambitious optimists, people betting that fresh leadership will shake CNN out of it slumber (and give themselves a high-profile role to help achieve those goals).
  — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026
• That distinction is important because AI optimists often answer valuation concerns by pointing to what the technology can do.
  — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• Managing The Risk Of Deskilling Being a technology optimist, deskilling is not a failure of technology.
  — Victor Fang, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
• China has long been a nation of techno-optimists, and not just because software and engineering — from smartphones to high-speed trains to drone deliveries — have radically improved life across the country in the span of a single generation.
  — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 7 July 2026
• Andy Sachs exemplifies an adaptive optimist, challenging norms and fostering open environments through self-reflection and curiosity.
  — Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• If so, an optimist could argue that giving lower-level leagues more chances to win games (and earn the accompanying NCAA Tournament financial units) is actually a good thing.
  — Jason Kirk, New York Times, 1 May 2026