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hoper

NOUN
optimist
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NOUN
Pollyanna
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But she says the system self regulates because a publisher and a store would never exchange money for a "no hoper".

From BBC Sep. 1, 2022

Of course, there's a difference: in the movie, Bill's no-hoper status encourages him to cut loose with a campaign centred on real substance, and thus it is that the no-hoper becomes a hoper.

From The Guardian Apr. 21, 2010

I have always been an obstinate hoper: and even this is a 'datum' and a symptom of hope to me, that a better, an ancestral, spirit is forming and will appear in the rising generation.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

Hence, while the hoper enjoys only the future, the achiever, if his joy-digesting apparatus be working properly, rejoices with exceeding great joy in past, present, and future alike.

From The Joyful Heart by Schauffler, Robert Haven

But I warn you I am a terrible hoper.

From The Flight of the Shadow by MacDonald, George




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