as in optimist
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Recent Examples of do-gooder
Lucy is the do-gooder vault dweller, Maximus is the aspirant warrior, and The Ghoul is the wasteland rogue.
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Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
Reyes denied molesting or trafficking the girl, portraying himself as a do-gooder who wished to help an unsheltered person in need, according to police.
—Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2024
Helen’s husband, Wallace (Andrew Buchan), is a defense secretary and member of the conservative party, who toes a fine line between complicit villain and naive do-gooder, without ever risking anything more personal than his reputation.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2024
The hope was that, like Venom, this charismatic killer could anchor a franchise before potentially mixing it up with Holland’s friendly neighborhood do-gooder, or Tom Hardy’s schizophrenic symbiote, or maybe even the big leaguers in that lucrative cinematic universe a few shops over.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
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Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
Reyes denied molesting or trafficking the girl, portraying himself as a do-gooder who wished to help an unsheltered person in need, according to police.
—Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2024
Helen’s husband, Wallace (Andrew Buchan), is a defense secretary and member of the conservative party, who toes a fine line between complicit villain and naive do-gooder, without ever risking anything more personal than his reputation.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2024
The hope was that, like Venom, this charismatic killer could anchor a franchise before potentially mixing it up with Holland’s friendly neighborhood do-gooder, or Tom Hardy’s schizophrenic symbiote, or maybe even the big leaguers in that lucrative cinematic universe a few shops over.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for do-gooder
Noun
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But the optimist thinks this is Google’s ambient computing vision coming alive.—
Sheena Vasani,
The Verge,
18 Jan. 2025
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Phaedra, ever the optimist, reassures her that this group is like family, and even through the mess, sisterhood is still within reach.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
6 Jan. 2025
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The documentary significantly adds to the origin story, tracing Reubens’ early days and infatuation with TV kids’ shows and Disney movies — Pollyanna was a favorite — and fleshing out the family’s move to Florida.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 Jan. 2025
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But isn’t the cynical explanation also the Pollyanna one?—
Maya Singer,
Vogue,
8 Jan. 2025
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When the pendulum swung during the Progressive Era, reformers pushed the government to impose new rules that gave workers a better quality of life and a fairer chance at upward mobility.—
Peter Georgescu,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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MacKay went to Congress in 1982 and became a budget and spending reformer and helped to deauthorize the Cross-Florida Barge Canal.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2025
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“Do-gooder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/do-gooder. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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