optimist

Example Sentences

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While accepting the inaugural award for best podcast at last Sunday’s Golden Globes, Amy Poehler — perennial optimist and the mind behind some of contemporary culture’s most feel-good media — made a rare off-color joke.

From Salon • Jan. 16, 2026

I’m enough of a cockeyed optimist to believe that exposure to different cultures, to ways of being in, looking at and talking about the world, can cure a person of prejudice.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2025

She teared up recounting her father's condition, describing how he remained "an optimist" in a recent letter.

From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025

I’m basically an optimist, as strange as that may be.

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2025

Call me an optimist, but I’ll never give up hope that my family will take my art—and me—seriously.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan