optimist

Example Sentences

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Some optimists think the keyboard could become obsolete.

From Los Angeles Times

AI optimists like to point out that a rising tide has tended to lift all boats.

From The Wall Street Journal

While accepting the inaugural award for best podcast at last Sunday’s Golden Globes, Amy Poehler — perennial optimist and the mind behind some of contemporary culture’s most feel-good media — made a rare off-color joke.

From Salon

One I heard while working as a journalist in Moscow in the early 1980s: “A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.”

From The Wall Street Journal

I’m enough of a cockeyed optimist to believe that exposure to different cultures, to ways of being in, looking at and talking about the world, can cure a person of prejudice.

From Los Angeles Times