Example Sentences

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I’m not a wishful thinker, and I can hear and see all the problems, but because of these reasons, I am, all the time, training our AI models.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2023

“Utopian, visionary, wishful thinker, fantasist, fantasizer, romantic, romanticist, dreamer.”

From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019

But not every wishful thinker is on a fool's errand.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2010