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

"The chances are though," said Tom pessimistically, "that something has happened to delay him and he won't be on this train at all, but on the one that comes in to-morrow morning."

From Bert Wilson on the Gridiron by Duffield, J. W.