pessimist
Example Sentences
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One I heard while working as a journalist in Moscow in the early 1980s: “A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.”
Breaking the buck isn’t a hypothetical risk dreamed up by pessimists with too much time and not enough sunlight.
From MarketWatch
They needed simply to entice Mike Burry, or some other market pessimist, to pick 100 different triple-B bonds and buy $10 million in credit default swaps on each of them.
From Literature
That is a somewhat granular data point that pessimists will hang onto, as they fear “white box” competition, or the emergence of Big Tech’s own equipment taking share from Arista’s.
From Barron's
He describes himself as a “long-term optimist but a short-term pessimist.”
From Los Angeles Times
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