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hopeful

[hohp-fuhl] / ˈhoʊp fəl /




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“It’s so deeply strange — dark and funny, hopeful and menacing all at once,” Philbin said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

The charity is hopeful in the future the treatment will become available to even more prostate cancer patients.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

"We're hopeful to be launching in the next couple of months. We're ready to go. We're just waiting for a couple last approvals," Kaity Fischer, Wayve's vice president of commercial and operations, told AFP.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Eclipsing that idea, though, is how much more alive and hopeful this documentary makes us feel.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026

I felt hopeful that the nation was changing and that our daughters would have a better future.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson




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