optimistically

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Optimistically, Venezuela could boost daily output to 1.35 million barrels a day in 24 months, from 826,000 in 2025, according to Jim Burkhard at S&P Global Energy, after netting out imported diluent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Optimistically, Del Mar could go from four months to six, but an expansion of racing could hurt the boutique feel the track has marketed during its highly successful summer meet.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2023

Optimistically, the production of these lower-carbon aviation fuels could be underway by 2028, said Eric Zimpfer, the vice president of refining at BP Cherry Point.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2023

Optimistically — very optimistically — the two companies say they could do it as soon as two and a half years from now, when the positions of Earth and Mars line up again.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2022

Optimistically the thought is finally rounded out in “A Bean Stripe also Apple Eating,” in which Ferishtah argues that life in spite of the evil in it seems to him on the whole good.

From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald