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pessimist

[pes-uh-mist] / ˈpɛs ə mɪst /


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They feel the same forces as the pessimists—housing and grocery prices are rising for many of them, too.

From The Wall Street Journal

And the pessimists fear entry-level knowledge workers will become obsolete altogether.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

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

Breaking the buck isn’t a hypothetical risk dreamed up by pessimists with too much time and not enough sunlight.

From MarketWatch