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Nearby, Splash Resort draws families and retirees alike with spacious, beachfront units and kid-friendly perks like an indoor water park, a lazy river, and a dive-in movie theater.—
Carrie Honaker,
Travel + Leisure,
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In water, adults enjoy Aurora’s partnership with SCUBA SHACK, Anguilla’s only PADI 5-Star Dive Resort, while kids find their heaven at the massive waterpark, complete with slides and a lazy river.—
Baz Dreisinger,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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The film, like How to Train Your Dragon, is about a shiftless youngster (Lilo, a Hawaiian girl who has been acting out since the death of her parents) bonding with a fantasy creature (Stitch, a blue alien experiment designed as a weapon of destruction).—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2025
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Expectations of real gains in livelihoods among China’s large, increasingly shiftless rural population will be much harder to fulfill in an era of slower growth.—
Scott Rozelle and Matthew Boswell,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Oct. 2022
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Compared with their cognitively average peers, super-agers are the opposite of apathetic, says Gefen; they are actively engaged with other people and activities.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Our narrator is Alex, an apathetic and depraved teen gang leader who is as pleased by violence as he is enthralled with classical music.—
Robert English,
EW.com,
30 July 2025
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Sixty-five-year-old Jep Gambardella, indolent and disenchanted, his eyes permanently imbued with gin and tonic, watches this parade of hollow, doomed, powerful yet depressed humanity.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
4 Aug. 2025
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Screening disproportionately detects indolent tumors—those less likely to be lethal in the first place.—
Siddhartha Mukherjee,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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After another listless loss on Sunday, the New York Yankees are less than a game ahead of the Cleveland Guardians for the final playoff spot in the American League.—
Peter Chawaga,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Aug. 2025
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The animal was found listless on the sand at Oceano Dunes Vehicular Recreation Area south of Pismo Beach.—
Steven Rosenfeld,
Mercury News,
4 Aug. 2025
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Soviet Russia, too, experienced periodic panics about slothful bureaucrats impeding the dictatorship of the proletariat.—
Charlie Tyson,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2025
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At our test track, the buzzy little SUV needed a slothful 9.2 seconds to hit 60 mph.—
Drew Dorian,
Car and Driver,
23 Dec. 2022
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Summer ’25 is all about languorous mornings and late afternoon bike rides with fresh baguettes in the basket.—
Angela Lei,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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The film moves at the languorous speed of a humid summer day.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
16 July 2025
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Collectively, beleaguered grids and logistical challenges means those sweaty nights and lethargic days risk becoming part and parcel of European summers.—
Taco Engelaar,
Fortune,
11 Aug. 2025
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Well, that came to an end in Game 5 as McDavid was slowed as part of a mostly lethargic pace throughout the night.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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“Ambitionless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambitionless. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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