naively
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Meanwhile, Lohrmann said AI has been a naively optimistic passive-income coach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
We thought, perhaps naively, now that we’ve done it, now that there’s a proof of concept, it’s going to be much clearer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
One senior party figure told me it was naively optimistic to think that this could be replicated across so many seats.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
And yet it represented a floor which I naively believed democratic accountability could not fall beneath without consequence.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
After all, the numbers in the sequence get closer and closer to zero; naively, one would guess that this would ensure that the sum remains finite.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
