Example Sentences

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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

Let’s pessimistically assume that we are still in the worst timeline, and Pangaea Ultima is a truly infernal place.

From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2023

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

From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2023

Their relationship, she said pessimistically, will probably end.

From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2023

Here and there long lines of the omnibuses stood blocked in snow, and the press frantically heralded impending shortages of milk and coal, reiterating pessimistically: "No relief in sight."

From The Beloved Woman by Norris, Kathleen Thompson