naïve
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I have a painfully naive fantasy of being a war correspondent, but that’s not what this is.
From Slate • Jun. 24, 2026
His "excessive reliance on the self-regulating aspects of markets seemed dangerously naive, and eventually blew up in his face and everybody's face," Blinder told AFP.
From Barron's • Jun. 22, 2026
He's not naive, he knows how brutally hard this is going to be against Morocco.
From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026
“The approach is, let’s not be naive and pretend it’s not happening,” Martin told USA Today.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
But when Cortes’s next onslaught came, the Aztecs were no longer naive and fought street by street with the utmost tenacity.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing naïve
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
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