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

An optimist would say the market overreacted and now it’s time to get on with our lives.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

BofA equity strategist Savita Subramanian has been a stalwart stock-market optimist practically since the bull market began just over three years ago.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 21, 2025

While the optimist struggled to defend herself, I scrambled to think of an answer to what had obviously become a trick question.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris