fatalism
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We can all live and work together—or we can succumb to fatalism and a false sense of inevitability.
From Slate • May 28, 2026
In other hands, a film of such unadorned fatalism might seem useless, an exercise in emotional sadism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
The fatalism, the quarter of a century of not contending, the grinding down of expectation.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026
Much of that has to do with the way he holds hope in one hand and fatalism in the other, but Cassian borrows plenty of sorrow from the people surrounding him.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2025
Somewhere in my fatalism I had expected to die, accidentally, and never have the chance to walk up the stairs in the auditorium and gracefully receive my hard-earned diploma.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Vocabulary lists containing fatalism
Some Political and Philosophical -isms
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