hoper
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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
There was no appeal, and aloft went the wounded, ragged, famished hoper of devouring turtle-soup.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
Kirsty ceased to look upon him with the pity hitherto colouring all her devotion; pride had taken its place, which she buttressed with a massive hope, for Kirsty was a splendid hoper.
From Heather and Snow by George MacDonald
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 Henry Nelson Coleridge
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