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as in neglectfulness
failure to take the care that a cautious person usually takes
exhibiting his usual negligence, he failed to set the emergency brake, and the car rolled down the steep hill and crashed into the telephone pole
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as in neglect
the nonperformance of an assigned or expected action
the factory's owners are being charged with criminal negligence for the fire that killed a dozen workers
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Recent Examples of negligence
The court in Istanbul convicted the hotel's owner, Hakan Oglak, of the charge of causing multiple deaths through negligence and sentenced him to 13 years and four months in prison, state broadcaster TRT reported.
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CBS News,
26 June 2026
The judge had barred Haney from raising allegations of negligence by the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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Rebecca Ellis,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2026
The plaintiffs have also accused Bayer of negligence and misrepresentation of Roundup's safety in its marketing, and have alleged that the product was defective for its intended purpose.
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Diana Novak Jones,
USA Today,
25 June 2026
The Two-Year Clock Is Now the Rule Florida’s statute of limitations for general negligence claims, which covers most car accident cases, was cut in half.
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Matthew Kayser,
Miami Herald,
25 June 2026
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CBS News,
26 June 2026
The judge had barred Haney from raising allegations of negligence by the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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Rebecca Ellis,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2026
The plaintiffs have also accused Bayer of negligence and misrepresentation of Roundup's safety in its marketing, and have alleged that the product was defective for its intended purpose.
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Diana Novak Jones,
USA Today,
25 June 2026
The Two-Year Clock Is Now the Rule Florida’s statute of limitations for general negligence claims, which covers most car accident cases, was cut in half.
—
Matthew Kayser,
Miami Herald,
25 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for negligence
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Once, administrators confronted him about the carelessness of his grading.
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That's not chance or carelessness.
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Some business owners say crime and neglect are driving away customers.
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Disabled people are disproportionately represented in detention, where inaccessible conditions, inadequate medical care, and systemic neglect put lives at risk.
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Taking the midway point of those numbers, an opening weekend of $45 million would be a monumental failure.
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Then came this spring’s historic and devastating floods across northern Michigan — in some areas, for the first time anyone can remember — swamping homes, pushing dams to the brink of failure and washing out roadways.
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In recent years China’s Communist Party has ramped up oversight of religious institutions, rolled back the use of ethnic minority languages in primary, secondary schools and kindergartens.
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The administration cast Anthropic — long a backer of government oversight of AI — as ideologically motivated.
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The default rule, in essence, is that lawful gun owners may carry their weapons unless told otherwise, according to the decision.
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But Hawaii and other states flipped the default, prohibiting guns unless an owner gives express permission, rather than allowing guns unless they’re expressly prohibited.
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“Negligence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negligence. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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