earnest
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Mr. Meyer is hopelessly earnest and stubbornly, inexorably optimistic.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 25, 2026
“And what earnest actually means is direct and truthful.”
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 9, 2026
Stocks stumbled out of the gate after Labor Day, with a jittery tone gripping markets as the typically weak month of September began in earnest after the holiday.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 8, 2026
It was the kind of unabashedly earnest moment that could easily have tipped into awkwardness, but many in the room seemed to embrace it.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 6, 2026
During the summer of 1939, all of Kraków began to prepare for war in earnest.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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