naïve
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"Another important aspect is that our bees were fully naïve," Loukola adds.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
I was naïve and just totally blindly happy about the publishing process in the beginning.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
"I wasn't naïve to the fact that I would be coming away with a lot of debt, but I think it was more the way they portrayed it to you, rather than the amount."
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
Although it may seem naïve, on the surface, to stoop to such mundanity — a variation on our era’s “go outside and touch grass” naturalism — Styles may be genuinely onto something.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026
It sounded like someone a lot more naïve than Miles.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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Hopefully, I don’t sound as naive as those early internet optimists, who thought new shifts would usher in a golden age of humanity.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
"I was a bit petulant and naive back then," he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
“I was naive when I started all this and learned a lot from ‘Tiger King,’” he says, adding that there was internal friction about what direction to go with the material.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
“As a business gets bigger, there are unique challenges that pop up, so I’m not naive to those things and spend a lot of time just making sure we’re fixing things,” said LaFontaine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
As I had suspected they would be, my discoveries were naive ones, like those of a child.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
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