naïve
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"Another important aspect is that our bees were fully naïve," Loukola adds.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 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
Strategist Karl Rove called the idea “moronic, stupid, naïve, and dumb.”
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026
“Do you think you shall like Morton?” she asked of me, with a direct and naïve simplicity of tone and manner, pleasing, if child-like.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
“I was naive when I started all this and learned a lot from ‘Tiger King,’” he says, adding that there was internal friction about what direction to go with the material.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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
“As a business gets bigger, there are unique challenges that pop up, so I’m not naive to those things and spend a lot of time just making sure we’re fixing things,” said LaFontaine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
But Madonna’s lived too many lives to be naive.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
“Look,” she says, “I’m sorry you’re angry, Tonni. I guess I’m a tittle naive about some things...”Tonni snorts.
From "The Misfits" by James Howe
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"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
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