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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Don't be such a pessimist - I'm sure things will work out.
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Don't be such a pessimist - I'm sure you'll pass your driving test!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After all, their brokers and investment bankers win business by being optimists, not pessimists.
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Burke is remembered as a poetic pessimist .
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But still, he stayed out there shovelling, confounding the pessimists even though his task was clearly hopeless.
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Let puritans and pessimists damn, disapprove or dismiss these appetites; that is their loss.
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Most accountants tend to be pessimists.
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Some estimates put the close of year figure at 2,050 - 150 points lower than the worst of last week's pessimists.
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The pessimists feared the Conservatives' nine seats could even be wiped out north of the border.
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With beta software, it pays to be a pessimist and not harbor unrealistic expectations.