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"Another important aspect is that our bees were fully naïve," Loukola adds.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026

This “Farm” isn’t lacking for good intentions and, in spots, as with Woody Harrelson’s fine casting as the naïve, loyal horse Boxer, one can see glimmers of what a good adaptation might have been.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

We will have to see what evidence Badenoch has, and what Jenrick says, to assess whether that MP is simply being naïve.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026

Strategist Karl Rove called the idea “moronic, stupid, naïve, and dumb.”

From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026

His techniques were too new, his skills too great, the men around him too naïve, as if they had never before experienced a falsehood.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Perhaps it’s naive to want a supermarket not to use what it knows about me against me.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

If he thinks such gimmicks will work, he’s even more naive than his robot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Looking back, both chuckle at what Hibbs now calls his “fairly naive hope.”

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Sometimes,” Mr. Byrne said, “it takes a naive foreigner to appreciate what people who live in a country don’t realize they have”—a sentiment congruent with his advice to think across disciplines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

They liked being the sophisticated city kids who could explain how things worked to the naive country boy.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson