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Recent Examples of dispassion In the play’s most striking image, the dead sit in the Grover’s Corners graveyard in rows—rather like a theatre audience—watching the living with quiet dispassion. Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024 Nell shows a remarkable understanding of the song, a sense of dispassion that is both beautiful and chilling. Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024 And the agency has consistently performed those duties with rigor and dispassion. Eva Temkin, STAT, 14 Dec. 2023 The cowboys are loading their guns with dispassion and buckshot. Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 23 June 2022 See All Example Sentences for dispassion
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispassion
Noun
  • Within the clubhouse, players often analyze their performance with a sense of detachment more than urgency.
    Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But that ease can become dependence or even detachment from reality.
    Sonia Mankame, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The King of Swords invites you to lead with intellect, integrity, and objectivity.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Numbers were a source of certainty, of objectivity.
    Annabelle Huang, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Their works push back against the coldness of technology, asserting presence, autonomy, and creative resistance.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Thematically, this episode is awash in the color blue itself, which many fans interpret as symbolizing coldness and detachment from the music industry.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025

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“Dispassion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispassion. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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