defeatism

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Recent Examples of defeatism Some climate scientists prefer to call it climate defeatism instead, and others have called doom the new climate denial because of how disempowering its black-and-white logic is: There is nothing to be done to stop climate collapse, so why bother trying? Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2024 The billionaire founder’s defeatism—and private contemplation about leaving the U.S.—are shared by a cadre of wealthy Democratic Party backers, who have been left licking their wounds and trying to move forward after Harris’s defeat, the Times reported. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024 Biden was compelled not by any fair comparison to the character and record of the Republican nominee, but by how polls had spread defeatism and panic among other party leaders, down-ballot Democrats and major donors. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 22 July 2024 But Newbury believes that this inevitable incumbency effect has been compounded by a sense of apathy and defeatism in the sector. Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 3 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for defeatism

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“Defeatism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defeatism. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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