nihilism
Example Sentences
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So can we declare Gen Z financial nihilism a myth, at least among young men?
From MarketWatch • Jan. 15, 2026
I want my students and children’s friends to be healthy, but I also understand the gesture, the fashionable nihilism, the hedonism, the why not.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
Perhaps this nihilism will prove too trenchant and reactive for some viewers.
From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025
"A couple of billion years from now, the sun will expand, engulf the earth and maybe we'll be long gone – but there's a beautiful, optimistic nihilism in that," they explain.
From BBC • May 30, 2025
In an ecological version of therapeutic nihilism, they want to leave the river basin to its own devices.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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