optimistically

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Optimistically, Venezuela could boost daily output to 1.35 million barrels a day in 24 months, from 826,000 in 2025, according to Jim Burkhard at S&P Global Energy, after netting out imported diluent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Optimistically, Del Mar could go from four months to six, but an expansion of racing could hurt the boutique feel the track has marketed during its highly successful summer meet.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2023

Optimistically she added, “Maybe 2023 will be a primer for the best year ever.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2022

Optimistically, those structures would resemble Earth’s stromatolites, layered mounds of microbes that, although rare today, appear as abundant fossils in certain 3.5-billion-year-old rocks.

From Scientific American • Aug. 6, 2021

Optimistically the thought is finally rounded out in “A Bean Stripe also Apple Eating,” in which Ferishtah argues that life in spite of the evil in it seems to him on the whole good.

From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald