sanguine
Example Sentences
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Not all workers are sanguine, however, about the prospective impact.
From New York Times
Its last day will be April 16, and Lloyd Webber is not sanguine about it.
From Washington Post
Frank Luntz, a pollster and communication analyst who said he “came of age in the days of Ronald Reagan,” said that in the current Republican Party, gone is the era of Reagan’s sanguine optimism.
From Washington Post
Activists among the crowd were a little less sanguine.
From Salon
Some of the troops, who have sustained heavy losses at the front, sound less sanguine than the civilians.
From New York Times
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