How to pronounce optimistic

Listen to optimistic in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.

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“optimistic” in real sentences

889 clips in the index · 341 American · 548 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.

  1. Some have more optimistic ones, some less optimistic.

    Federal Reserve · watch from 47:45 · hear it here

  2. optimistic and I hope that we wi optimistic and I hope that we will optimistic and

    Dept of Justice · watch from 18:33 · hear it here

  3. themselves over optimistic.

    The Scottish Parliament · watch from 24:28 · hear it here

  4. >> I'm extremely optimistic.

    NIST · watch from 2:43 · hear it here

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