pessimistic
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A stock-market trading indicator that had been flashing “sell” since May no longer is as pessimistic toward stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Managers are most pessimistic about consumer discretionary stocks, with sentiment back to the depth of the 2008 recession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Hutchins is pessimistic about staving off the ban and laments what it would mean for the city's famed French restaurants.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Next, Sam Sankar of the environmental-law organization Earthjustice explains why SCOTUS’ longstanding skepticism towards the environment does not make him as pessimistic as one might expect.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2026
His foreman was a man defeated by his own pessimistic views, and his news was mostly a series of misfortunes: the strawberries froze, the chickens caught the pip, the grapes rotted.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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