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Noun
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But the 26 minutes of footage previewed for the press quickly silenced the naysayers.—
Gregg Kilday,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026 -
The entire city was a party because all the naysayers left town.—
Kailyn Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
Adjective
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Valerie, having found her backbone, is ultimately replaced on her sitcom by an AI version of Valerie, which sounds cynical — except that Valerie ends up getting a presumably far better job as the star of Stevens’ new series, Judge’s Table, about a judge who leaves the law to become a chef.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
11 May 2026
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Continue reading … SPACED OUT — Joe Rogan suggests upcoming UFO disclosure is cynical distraction from war in Iran.—
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FOXNews.com,
8 May 2026
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Melville was a pessimist, and a tragedian.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
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As late as August 2007, the Federal Reserve was skeptical of such bubble talk, while Grantham was dismissed as a pessimist, a dismissal that soon proved mistaken.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
12 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Everything everywhere all at once However, some analysts are skeptical about the ability of hyperscalers to maintain the current phenomenal capex figures into the future.—
Joseph Wilkins,
CNBC,
8 May 2026
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The women suffered the indignity of multiple interviews, intimate evidence gathering and skeptical lines of questioning from the police, among other things.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
8 May 2026
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But the fatalist in me feels like this stuff is coming.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The misanthropic music matched the bleak unreality of the antisocial pandemic world.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
26 Feb. 2026
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By the end of the year, Alfred Tennyson, lately miserable, misanthropic, semi-broke, and semi-feral, had been made the Poet Laureate of England.—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Hegseth largely declined to provide specifics, instead denouncing critics as defeatists, questioning their patriotism and insisting the mission had broad public support.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
29 Apr. 2026
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Now there is a British tendency to be slightly defeatist.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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On Polymarket, traders have a slightly more pessimistic outlook.—
Davis Giangiulio,
CNBC,
4 May 2026
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As Insider notes, this isn’t the first time that Garman has hit back against some of the more pessimistic predictions about AI job takeovers.—
Will McCurdy,
PC Magazine,
2 May 2026
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“Negativist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negativist. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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