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Recent Examples of hopefulness
There’s a hopefulness to it, like coming back.
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Sasha Pinto, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2025
Your characters are constantly singing songs from a 2007-through-2010 catalogue, and there’s this undercurrent of hopefulness to all of them.
—Justin Caffier, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
The piece also has this feeling of hopefulness.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
Pariah has its heavy moments as well as spurts of joy and hopefulness, and the best part is no lesbian is sacrificed to further the plot.
—Quispe López, Them., 29 Aug. 2025
Their music provided a suitably self-important soundtrack as Great Recession-era artisanal hipsterdom faded into the careerist hopefulness of the latter Obama years, when Everlane minimalism supplanted lumberjack plaid.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
But almost as soon as that hopefulness returned, it was tugged away when ownership decided to slash payroll.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 12 Aug. 2025
The price cap was rolled out to equal parts skepticism and hopefulness that the policy would stave off Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2025
Sasha Pinto, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2025
Your characters are constantly singing songs from a 2007-through-2010 catalogue, and there’s this undercurrent of hopefulness to all of them.
—Justin Caffier, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
The piece also has this feeling of hopefulness.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
Pariah has its heavy moments as well as spurts of joy and hopefulness, and the best part is no lesbian is sacrificed to further the plot.
—Quispe López, Them., 29 Aug. 2025
Their music provided a suitably self-important soundtrack as Great Recession-era artisanal hipsterdom faded into the careerist hopefulness of the latter Obama years, when Everlane minimalism supplanted lumberjack plaid.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
But almost as soon as that hopefulness returned, it was tugged away when ownership decided to slash payroll.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 12 Aug. 2025
The price cap was rolled out to equal parts skepticism and hopefulness that the policy would stave off Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hopefulness
Noun
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As Milchick, Tillman infused an unnerving cheerfulness into Lumon Industries’ macrodata refinement supervisor, a character who became increasingly central in Season 2.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
15 Sep. 2025
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Her vivacious attitude connects her with Aries (Stacey’s actual birthday is April 3) due to her fearlessness and cheerfulness in situations, no matter what is thrown at her.—
Lisa Stardust,
People.com,
18 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Glassberg Sands is holding out hope that frontline employees will be safe from the cull, but as more human skills are targeted for automation, there could be drastic effects on the careers of recent grads.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2025
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On a recent early fall morning, hope was in short supply.—
Sarah Stella,
The Conversation,
9 Oct. 2025
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Furthermore, the constellation brightness would drown out faint celestial objects and limit astronomical observations.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Oct. 2025
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Of course, the film is most notable for — spoiler — Roberts’s death at the end, and her palpable absence in the final scenes speaks to the brightness of her presence in the movie’s earlier parts.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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Running restaurants requires a mix of idealism, determination and recklessness all too familiar to those who work in Hollywood.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Oct. 2025
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Such breathless idealism sounds otherworldly today.—
Andreas Kluth,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
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Here's what to know Autumn bulb planting is one of those great bits of gardening optimism.—
Paul Cappiello,
Louisville Courier Journal,
10 Oct. 2025
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For all those challenges, the current mood—both in Washington and in Jerusalem—is one of cautious optimism.—
Ilan Berman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Hopefulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hopefulness. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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