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Noun
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Artificial intelligence—a productivity-maximizing tool to some and an untamable threat to others—has asked similar questions of the social contract in the 21st century, and the optimists appear to be winning the day.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025 -
On Tuesday night, Bader led off for one of the best teams in baseball, an audacious idea at the time of the trade for even the biggest optimists in the room.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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Of the roiling mass of restless natives, cranky artists and tattered idealists who rose up across the Southland this summer to flip off darkness and call America back to its better angels?—
John Lopez,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Sep. 2025
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But Loktev is quick to correct anyone who perceives My Undesirable Friends as a snapshot of idealists under duress.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Positivists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/positivists. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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