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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
  • At first look, naming wars after their location, participants, starting date or duration might appear to be an exercise in objective detachment.
    Esther Brito Ruiz, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Notably, psychological detachment (truly unplugging) and physical activity during time away were the strongest drivers of improvement.
    Michelle Stansbury, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For each of these men—and the broader medical and public-health community that supported the eugenics movement—the veneer of data objectivity helped transform prejudice into policy.
    Craig Spencer, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Instead one was woken into an eternal godlike vigilance, as though the experience of objectification had in the end borne the fruit of objectivity.
    Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • At the time of writing, there has been no message of gratitude towards Newcastle or the fans from Isak, potentially in response to the coldness of the club’s announcement.
    Harry De Cosemo, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The catch, though, is that this hard exterior is often misinterpreted as coldness or disinterest (which is why clear communication is so important).
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 26 Aug. 2025

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“Dispassion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispassion. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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