defeatist
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The biggest impediment to cancer progress is a defeatist mindset that extending lives isn’t worth the cost.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
This attempt to reassert the old order has been fractured, ineffective and at times defeatist, according to interviews with sources in or around the push to defeat Mamdani conducted over the months since the primary.
From Salon • Oct. 30, 2025
Lying low in our green zone sounds pretty defeatist.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2024
He said: "It's defeatist and sends a terrible signal to potential overseas investors that the UK simply cannot deliver large national transport infrastructure schemes."
From BBC • Oct. 4, 2023
But I believe we have a duty not to be so defeatist in this matter.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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