naively
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County had fallen in 2024 not to 100 or so, as I naively hoped, but to 2,208.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
And yet it represented a floor which I naively believed democratic accountability could not fall beneath without consequence.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
That means that even if the Fed delivers multiple rate cuts this year, the labor market may not benefit as much as some might be naively counting on.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
Firstly, they had, perhaps naively, imagined that the briefings would generate some news, but not wall-to-wall headline news.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
When I embarked on this book, I naively assumed that Volpe’s actors would probably be among the top students at their not-so-great high school, high achievers across the board.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
