pessimist
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Whether you are an A.I. optimist or pessimist, you’d ideally agree that few industries have ever screamed out more for intense scrutiny at a particular moment than generative A.I. does right now.
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2026
A race-relations pessimist who invokes the ideas of other writers of that ilk—Ta-Nehisi Coates, for instance, and Isabel Wilkerson—he detects in America a “fatigue with the pursuit of equality and inclusion.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
A pessimist, however, would look and see the need for careful risk management.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
“My advice is simple: Plan like a pessimist and travel like an optimist,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2025
A moral pessimist, von Wright questioned whether the material and technological advances of modern society could really be considered “progress” at all.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Optimists tend to have higher incomes than pessimists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
And the pessimists fear entry-level knowledge workers will become obsolete altogether.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
She has defied pessimists to be a hit with voters, especially young ones, with fans lapping up everything from her handbag to her jamming to a K-pop song with South Korea's president.
From Barron's ● Feb. 7, 2026
Breaking the buck isn’t a hypothetical risk dreamed up by pessimists with too much time and not enough sunlight.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 5, 2025
Scientists can’t afford to be optimists or pessimists.
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
Vocabulary lists containing pessimist
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