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Noun
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Jim Cramer is giving Salesforce a chance to prove naysayers wrong after a bearish analyst call Monday.—
Natasha Abellard,
CNBC,
18 May 2026 -
And here’s a detail the naysayers miss entirely.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
17 May 2026
Adjective
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Governor Gavin Newsom's office defended the framework, calling protests against Hernandez a cynical attempt to weaponize the debate.—
Alejandro Avila OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
19 May 2026
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In season three, this argument has largely taken a cynical, nihilistic turn.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
18 May 2026
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That is a hard thing to live with—but, the pessimist would answer, who thought life was supposed to be easy?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 May 2026
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As late as August 2007, the Federal Reserve was skeptical of such bubble talk, while Grantham was dismissed as a pessimist, a dismissal that soon proved mistaken.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
12 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Travelers should be cautiously skeptical Ignoring professional advice isn't necessarily a bad trend.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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Others are purely skeptical and believe a dialogue could backfire.—
Morgan Chalfant,
semafor.com,
15 May 2026
Noun
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But the fatalist in me feels like this stuff is coming.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The misanthropic music matched the bleak unreality of the antisocial pandemic world.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
26 Feb. 2026
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By the end of the year, Alfred Tennyson, lately miserable, misanthropic, semi-broke, and semi-feral, had been made the Poet Laureate of England.—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Hegseth largely declined to provide specifics, instead denouncing critics as defeatists, questioning their patriotism and insisting the mission had broad public support.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
29 Apr. 2026
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Now there is a British tendency to be slightly defeatist.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Gallup’s 2025 poll was the first time the organization found younger Americans to be more pessimistic than people in other countries about job prospects, and that trend looks primed to continue.—
Justin Klawans,
TheWeek,
13 May 2026
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More than 60% of the class of 2026 are pessimistic about their career prospects, according to a recent report from Handshake.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
11 May 2026
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“Negativist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negativist. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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