optimism
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Oil markets have begun to “shed the entrenched optimism about a quick and durable end to the war disruption.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Caltech needs only to look up to see reasons for optimism now and into the future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
The reading added to optimism surrounding the sector after Anthropic, the mother company for Claude AI, said Monday in its IPO filing that first-half revenue surged about 1,300 percent and flagged heavy capital spending ahead.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
U.S. stocks rose for the second straight session amid growing optimism about upcoming earnings reports from so-called artificial-intelligence hyperscalers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
During the years 1919-20 Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist, adopted as his own the maxim ‘pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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