fatalistic

Example Sentences

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Still, he urged students not to be fatalistic about it.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

I do not say this to be fatalistic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

And while there is nothing fatalistic about such imperial fantasies that translate the past into the present, they often echo in the repertoire of the influential and powerful.

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2025

Mays, in the time I’ve known him, has been realistic rather than fatalistic.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2025

At that very same moment, the thieves disappeared, and the only sound Mr. van D. could hear was the frightened pounding of his fatalistic wife’s heart.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank