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Recent Examples of defeatism
Shot entirely in France, the movie renders its ideas of romantic melancholy and Agathe’s default romantic defeatism in ways that reassure the audience every second.
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2025
Blind pessimism becomes defeatism, a denial that solutions are possible.
—Big Think, 5 Feb. 2025
The defeatism that has come to define the way that many young people today perceive the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis is not really part of her vocabulary.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
The title is the central theme, brilliantly and often shockingly rendered via a series of lightly connected stories that mine the depths of defeatism, nihilism, and alienation.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2024
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2025
Blind pessimism becomes defeatism, a denial that solutions are possible.
—Big Think, 5 Feb. 2025
The defeatism that has come to define the way that many young people today perceive the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis is not really part of her vocabulary.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
The title is the central theme, brilliantly and often shockingly rendered via a series of lightly connected stories that mine the depths of defeatism, nihilism, and alienation.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for defeatism
Recent Examples of Synonyms for defeatism
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Prolonged disruptions could deepen public pessimism, especially among low- and middle-income Americans already reporting the greatest hardship.—
Deputy News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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The Canadian government has started to view talks with the U.S. optimistically after a long period of pessimism.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, the Young Republican National Federation called for the immediate resignations of leaders in the organization exposed in a Politico story to have sent racist, antisemitic and other derogatory text messages to one another in a private chat.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
16 Oct. 2025
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Jenner previously walked in the brand’s 2015, 2016, and 2018 fashion shows before the event was cancelled in 2019 following its organizer Edward Razek’s resignation due to public pressure over criticism toward the brand for creating a culture of misogyny and harassment.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Defeatism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defeatism. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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