fatalistic
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Still, he urged students not to be fatalistic about it.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
They’re a rejoinder to all the fatalistic commentary about tanking and how “being bad to get better” is an accepted reality of the NBA.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
Mays, in the time I’ve known him, has been realistic rather than fatalistic.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2025
And we don’t want to be fatalistic in thinking that you are either born with entrepreneurship or you’re not.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2024
There is some evidence that reasoning of just this sort was going on in Jefferson’s mind at this time, changing him from an advocate of emancipation to a silent and fatalistic procrastinator.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing fatalistic
To Kill a Mockingbird
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