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Recent Examples of defeatism
What a mix of cruelty, defeatism, conspiracy-mongering and political servility.
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Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2024
However, not everything is gloomy, and both Kyiv and the West should guard against defeatism.
—Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2023
Still, even a thinker as canny as Shklar capitulated to the defeatism of the era eventually.
—Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
The pressure cooker of academic and career competition may have been untenable across several generations, inspiring a sweeping trend of defeatism in the country’s youngest workers.
—Byrachel Shin, Fortune, 29 July 2023
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“Defeatism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defeatism. Accessed 12 Dec. 2024.
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