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pessimistically



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Today’s lower numbers aren’t evidence that we lack faith in true love’s existence – though that’s pessimistically prevalent these days among singles – but of wedding-driven reality TV’s expansion.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2024

The Mariners manager wasn’t trying to be pessimistically prescient or trying to hedge future failure.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

Yet one could be forgiven for pessimistically siding with Wood.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2020

That Mr. Kelley offered no way to integrate those opposites is a large part of what makes his art so unsettlingly, pessimistically provocative.

From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2015

"I'm sure you are," Josip said pessimistically, and suppressing an urge to bite at the skin of his thumb.

From Expediter by Mack Reynolds




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