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I was living in Atlanta after Hurricane Katrina, and lot of people got displaced there, and they were depressed; there was a sense of hopelessness and not knowing where to go next.

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“As you will understand watching my Bella struggle in silence, has cut the deepest core of hopelessness inside me,” the elder Hadid said on Instagram.

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A democratic system that many see as broken, and a hopelessness about where things are headed.

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At the end of most conversations, whether with officials, climate experts, or the frontline victims of these extreme weather events, there is a certain hopelessness.

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"We have graduates from every level... not having jobs. There's a serious state of hopelessness amongst the youth," he says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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