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The phrase "are not very optimistic" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when expressing a lack of hope or positive expectation about a situation or outcome.
Example: "Given the current economic conditions, many experts are not very optimistic about the recovery."
Alternatives: "are not particularly hopeful" or "are not too positive".
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Even the optimists are not very optimistic.
"We are not very optimistic.
"Well," offers Skolimowski, "Poles are not very optimistic".
We will be glad when our wife realizes this, but we are not very optimistic.
"A lot of people, especially when it comes to Ford, are not very optimistic, but I am," Mr. Gettelfinger said.
(Analysts at Jefferies & Company are not very optimistic about the prospects of such a move, saying that it could fetch as little as $1 billion).
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He said, "At that point, I should have gone into the room and said, 'Listen, guys, the lawyers aren't very optimistic.
You always ask yourself: "What are they going to do?" It's in our genes to ask: "Are we going to be kicked out?" Unless the political situation changes, I'm not very optimistic about the future of this community.
"I am not very optimistic about that".
"I'm not very optimistic," Verschuur said.
But he is not very optimistic.
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