as in dreamer
a person who usually expects good things to happen
You have to be a bit of an optimist to start a business. Somehow he remained an optimist despite all that had happened to him.
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The pair took the hotel into a second Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1989, which Crawford, ever the optimist, referred to as a Chapter 22, Isenberg said.
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Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2025
Van der Lugt thinks the pessimist’s is more motivating and sees a danger in the optimist’s, because if things look so generally bright, why should anyone get off the couch?
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2025
But the optimist thinks this is Google’s ambient computing vision coming alive.
—Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 18 Jan. 2025
Phaedra, ever the optimist, reassures her that this group is like family, and even through the mess, sisterhood is still within reach.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 6 Jan. 2025
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Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2025
Van der Lugt thinks the pessimist’s is more motivating and sees a danger in the optimist’s, because if things look so generally bright, why should anyone get off the couch?
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2025
But the optimist thinks this is Google’s ambient computing vision coming alive.
—Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 18 Jan. 2025
Phaedra, ever the optimist, reassures her that this group is like family, and even through the mess, sisterhood is still within reach.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Optimist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/optimist. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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