pessimist

Example Sentences

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Leading the pessimist concerto, Bloomberg News claimed that a “diving stock market” and $100-a-barrel crude could augur a financial crisis as catastrophic as the 2008-09 crash.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

A pessimist, however, would look and see the need for careful risk management.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

“My advice is simple: Plan like a pessimist and travel like an optimist,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 8, 2025

Speaking to BBC Scotland News, Sturgeon described herself as a natural pessimist but said that was not the case come polling day, 18 September 2014.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2024

I can’t seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley