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Here are 37 recipes guaranteed to make everyone a happy camper.
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Christina Chaey, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 June 2025
The Everglades have not always been a national treasure, a place of family adventures and happy campers.
—Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2025
That was when Jimmy Butler was still a happy camper in South Florida.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
Perhaps the biggest danger in the band coming back was whether touring these old songs by Bennington (on top of Shinoda’s contributions, obviously) would feel like Clinical Depression Cosplay… happy campers at play replicating some of the most relentlessly despondent songs ever committed to record.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
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Christina Chaey, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 June 2025
The Everglades have not always been a national treasure, a place of family adventures and happy campers.
—Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2025
That was when Jimmy Butler was still a happy camper in South Florida.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
Perhaps the biggest danger in the band coming back was whether touring these old songs by Bennington (on top of Shinoda’s contributions, obviously) would feel like Clinical Depression Cosplay… happy campers at play replicating some of the most relentlessly despondent songs ever committed to record.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for happy camper
optimist
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If the skeptics hadn’t outnumbered the optimists by many miles, there’s no way Rockefeller could have pieced together what became Standard Oil.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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This squad has already accomplished the impossible, turning Bears fans into optimists, and not just about this season, but also those to come.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
16 Jan. 2026
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