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
And so the chance has arrived at last, decades in the waiting, decades largely made up of frustration, false dawns and fatalism.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
Today, realism tells us that the future will get worse before it might get better – and it can only get better if we reject fatalism and get on with organizing.
From Salon • Jun. 17, 2025
That’s the kind of fatalism and pessimism typical of a repressive feudal system, where peasants have no reason to believe in the efficacy of their own work.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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