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Recent Examples of defeatism
Blind pessimism becomes defeatism, a denial that solutions are possible.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for defeatism
Noun
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Sentiment metrics are often seen as important market signals, usually contrarian ones (i.e, where optimism is a sell signal for investors and pessimism is a buy signal).—
George Calhoun,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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Afterward the team had the participants take a questionnaire to determine their level of optimism or pessimism.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
21 July 2025
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Werfel subsequently announced his resignation, effective January 20, 2025.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Kapusta resigned the day after the investigation commenced, and her resignation was accepted with prejudice, barring her from future employment with the Department of Corrections or any other entity that falls under the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, Hall said.—
Killian Baarlaer,
The Courier-Journal,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Defeatism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defeatism. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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