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
Karina was, like her mother, an unrelenting optimist.
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Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
An optimist would say that this is an aboveboard method that will ensure that the EU AI Continent ambitions are sensibly vetted and laid out for all to see.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Major Intermediate Buy Signal Still Intact The AAII Bull-Bear Spread residing at minus 40.1 continues to reflect a percentage of pessimists trouncing the optimists by a factor of 3, with recent readings some of the most Bearish in history, given that Main Street is usually Bullish.
—John Buckingham, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Even technology optimists acknowledge that A.I. raises questions similar to those that the Luddites once posed.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
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Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
An optimist would say that this is an aboveboard method that will ensure that the EU AI Continent ambitions are sensibly vetted and laid out for all to see.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Major Intermediate Buy Signal Still Intact The AAII Bull-Bear Spread residing at minus 40.1 continues to reflect a percentage of pessimists trouncing the optimists by a factor of 3, with recent readings some of the most Bearish in history, given that Main Street is usually Bullish.
—John Buckingham, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Even technology optimists acknowledge that A.I. raises questions similar to those that the Luddites once posed.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for optimist
dreamer
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For dreamers who still cling to hope in the City of Angels, there needs to be.—
Katie Walsh,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Wembley notebook: Man City show nous to set up FA Cup final with Palace dreamers Manchester City were in the semi-finals of the FA Cup for the seventh season running yesterday.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Optimist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/optimist. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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