pessimistically

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Today’s lower numbers aren’t evidence that we lack faith in true love’s existence – though that’s pessimistically prevalent these days among singles – but of wedding-driven reality TV’s expansion.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2024

Let’s pessimistically assume that we are still in the worst timeline, and Pangaea Ultima is a truly infernal place.

From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2023

The Mariners manager wasn’t trying to be pessimistically prescient or trying to hedge future failure.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2023

Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, and it framed its findings fairly pessimistically.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2023

"Though it's not likely they'll be sending us up again soon," he muttered pessimistically.

From A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F. by Montgomery, Rutherford George