hopelessness

Example Sentences

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The despair and hopelessness are a response to feeling powerless in the face of injustice and watching long-standing norms be routinely broken.

From Salon • May 28, 2026

He added there was a "sense of hopelessness that comes with all of this", and that he did not really know what was going on.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

These included anhedonia, feelings of hopelessness, and a sense of failure, in both women with and without HIV.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

"It just feels bizarre, and I find so many of us don't really know how to feel right now, besides rage and hopelessness," she said.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

An air of hopelessness quickly swept through the gunter community.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline