Panglossian

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Recent Examples of Panglossian The Panglossian financial projections will be accompanied by tectonic socioeconomic and psychological change. Mark A. Cohen, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025 The real Leibniz almost always refrained from spelling out Panglossian excuses for particular evils. Anthony Gottlieb, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Panglossian
Adjective
  • Perhaps Vrabel knew something optimistic fans did not know.
    Mike Sando, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Klarna was unusually optimistic about AI’s capabilities.
    Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Herbert has a rosy outlook financially as well.
    Brett Knight, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Until recently, things were not looking so rosy.
    Alex González Ormerod, Time, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Things seemed to be going Sporting KC’s way in the first half of a Sunday night matchup with fellow Western Conference playoff hopeful Austin FC.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Our narrator, a gay, happily married father of two disentangling himself from a poly love affair, is—depending on the light—brilliant, self-mythologizing, abject, hopeful, and vulnerable.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Early childhood advocates were somewhat more upbeat.
    David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Portraying someone in an upbeat celebratory biopic is one thing.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Light poured down the long hallway, dimpled and rose-colored, the dust from the carpet rising and falling.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
  • The more rose-colored put a soft focus on Vacationland nostalgia—a lobster roll for lunch at McLoons on Sprucehead Island, an art director's fantasy of coastal quaint.
    Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2024

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“Panglossian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Panglossian. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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