pessimistic
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Consumers have also become increasingly pessimistic, said Leo Barincou, an economist at Oxford Economics, in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
“We have a generation of young people who are increasingly pessimistic about the future because they’re locked out of the market for homeownership and renting for a longer period of time,” Lawrence told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Hutchins is pessimistic about staving off the ban and laments what it would mean for the city's famed French restaurants.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
One young man observed that even the way I’d characterized the change in Bitcoin’s price as a loss of value was unnecessarily pessimistic.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
As I ate, I cheered up a little and thought possibly, just possibly, I had been too pessimistic about the padlocks.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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