as in dreamer
a person who usually expects good things to happen
You have to be a bit of an optimist to start a business. Somehow he remained an optimist despite all that had happened to him.
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Recent Examples of optimist
What the optimists did not foresee was that power could eventually shift back.
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Sarah Bush, Foreign Affairs, 3 July 2025
Projected over 162 games, that’s a 94-win clip — a total that would surprise even the most wild-eyed optimists about the potential of the Giants in the first year of Buster Posey taking over as the president of baseball operations.
—Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
On one side were those captivated by growth—the optimists who cheered on rising revenues and loved backing a winning horse.
—Shane Enete, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
But even Wedbush Securities’ Dan Ives, long known as one of Tesla’s most prominent optimists on Wall Street, said that sales demand will be down 10% permanently due to Musk’s political profile.
—Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
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Sarah Bush, Foreign Affairs, 3 July 2025
Projected over 162 games, that’s a 94-win clip — a total that would surprise even the most wild-eyed optimists about the potential of the Giants in the first year of Buster Posey taking over as the president of baseball operations.
—Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
On one side were those captivated by growth—the optimists who cheered on rising revenues and loved backing a winning horse.
—Shane Enete, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
But even Wedbush Securities’ Dan Ives, long known as one of Tesla’s most prominent optimists on Wall Street, said that sales demand will be down 10% permanently due to Musk’s political profile.
—Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for optimist
dreamer
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Every wreck, every ruin is the relic of a shriveled dream, lasting long after the body of its dreamer has been received back into the earth with love or remorse or indifference.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
10 July 2025
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The American project is a patchwork of dreamers and doers, saints and sinners, stitched together by the thread of promise that stretches across generations.—
F. Willis Johnson,
Twin Cities,
10 July 2025
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