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The phrase 'glimmer of optimism' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use this phrase to describe a situation where there is some hope that something good might happen, even if there are also difficulties or challenges. For example, "Despite the difficult situation, there is still a glimmer of optimism that the situation will improve."
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By contrast, 2071 offers a glimmer of optimism.
There's this glimmer of optimism and hope, and it wears out over an artistic life.
Wayne Chrebet, the Jets' receiver, unearthed a glimmer of optimism from the Oakland game.
He said the drugs had given him a glimmer of optimism, even if AIDS had left him sinking into poverty.
Then in the same breath, fighting back tears, she revealed either a glimmer of optimism or a shadow of wishful thinking.
3 23 p.m. | Updated The number of obese New York City schoolchildren fell by 5.5 percent over five years, federal and city officials said Thursday, offering a glimmer of optimism about one of the country's intractable health scourges.
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But, toward the end of the story, there are some glimmers of optimism for him.
The consensus outlook on Wall Street is gloomy for the immediate future, with glimmers of optimism for the longer term.
Smaller manufacturers and service companies, such as Daiei, Japan's biggest supermarket chain, took on debt to expand and are now in trouble.Yet amid the gloom, there are some first glimmers of optimism.
There are now some glimmers of optimism in the investment-banking world, where trading books have already been marked down ferociously and credit exposures to the real economy are more limited.
There were glimmers of optimism for Greece, where the government has been struggling to convince both the credit markets and European Union authorities that it is on track to pay down its ballooning budget deficit.
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