naiveté
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Looking back, she says a degree of naiveté helped her to take the risk of starting a business in a country at war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Bailey has a wide-eyed clueless cuteness that lends to her character’s well-meaning naiveté — even her missteps have a way of working out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
But Dougal’s naiveté does not preclude a sly sense of humor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
In his hands, the naiveté of a given era’s technology becomes poignant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025
It was either an amazing feat of stubbornness or naiveté, I thought, for someone who had seen so much death and suffering to still believe so unconditionally that everyone was as stand-up as he was.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Parker and Stone pivoted to “Team America: World Police,” a bomb-throwing comedy about our country’s napalm-strength combination of naïveté and swagger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Simplicity is a discipline, not naïveté: Buffett avoided complexity not because he lacked skill, but because he recognized its dangers.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025
The combination of Mr. Black’s barely controlled craziness and Mr. Rudd’s cheerful gosh-darn naïveté makes the picture work, though the gags are uneven.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
My naïveté springs from the eternal hope brought to us by the Christmas season.
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2024
She could see the similarities between these two lonely children, even more clearly than they could: the same sensitive personalities lurking inside both of them, the same bookish wisdom layered over a deep naïveté.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
Some of the clear-eyed naivete she had previously is gone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Allow me the arrogance, or the naivete, to believe them.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
"There is no naivete on the part of the opposition delegation," the source said, adding that it "must take advantage of this window of opportunity."
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
He and Ms. Wilde work off each other brilliantly, his naivete getting crushed by her sophistication.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Perhaps I may be pardoned my naivete; I was but eight, and had given little thought to service and recompense.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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