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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
  • Working longer hours also reduces psychological detachment from work, which is essential for healthy recovery processes from one day to the next.
    Alliance Manchester Business School, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The dialogue will explore her career milestones and the philosophies that have shaped her artistry, including the practice of detachment, a theme both Jones and Akil connect to through lessons learned from Oprah Winfrey.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But our schools and workplaces punish difference in the name of fairness and objectivity.
    Big Think, Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Professional objectivity, trust in data, and ethical judgment have always been essential, and remain especially important in today’s complex environment.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But to the other, this is often construed as coldness or indifference.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Even when the glassy lakes thaw back into water, there’s this coldness that lingers.
    Leila Chatti September 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Dispassion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispassion. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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