fatalism
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It was this freedom to sabotage, Mr. Kerbaj writes, that generated a certain fatalism within the CIA and MI5.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
The idea that “there will be no victor or vanquished” is not poetic fatalism, it is empirical reality.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026
The fatalism, the quarter of a century of not contending, the grinding down of expectation.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
It’s a luxury, a quantum leap, one that can save your imagination from a propensity to meek fatalism or received social patterns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2025
Somewhere in my fatalism I had expected to die, accidentally, and never have the chance to walk up the stairs in the auditorium and gracefully receive my hard-earned diploma.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Vocabulary lists containing fatalism
Some Political and Philosophical -isms
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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