naïve

"In the naïve quark model, there are three quarks inside a proton, but nothing else," said Tommy Tsang, formerly a postdoc at Kent State University, now at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

I was naïve and just totally blindly happy about the publishing process in the beginning.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026

"I wasn't naïve to the fact that I would be coming away with a lot of debt, but I think it was more the way they portrayed it to you, rather than the amount."

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

Although it may seem naïve, on the surface, to stoop to such mundanity — a variation on our era’s “go outside and touch grass” naturalism — Styles may be genuinely onto something.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026

Instead people, like my naïve Mutter, insisted I was suited for bakery work.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

Hochman said Flores simply could have taken notes on the inappropriate comments and turned them in to superiors or the independent inspector general, which strikes me as either sweetly naive or disingenuous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

"They were like 'do you want to come into the room?' And me being a naive 17-year-old girl was like 'yeah fine'," Tilly recalls.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

“Pretending we may never need care is naive at best and can bankrupt your entire family if you don’t have a plan,” wrote Mim Senft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

But Madonna’s lived too many lives to be naive.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

I thought Ocean was a nice guy, but I also thought he was naive.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi