optimistic
Example Sentences
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Buying when markets are optimistic and selling during widespread pessimism is a sure way to lose the returns generated by staying in the stock market over the long term.
Some are worried that Wall Street is getting a little too optimistic.
The arrangement seems to track her movements like a camera, beginning with a jangly and optimistic guitar figure and acquiring heaviness and density as it goes.
In contrast, stock and gold market timers are quite optimistic — even to the point of irrational exuberance.
From MarketWatch
Although he played quarterback, he was so scrawny that it was hard for even the most optimistic coach to imagine how he would survive a college pass rush.
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