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Recent Examples of dispassionately
Instead, endeavor to stand back, look at the list dispassionately, and judge which three events honestly were the biggest of the year in your judgment.
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Miami Herald, 26 Dec. 2025
Dwight sets the logs ablaze, watching dispassionately as Dunmire burns to a crisp.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
Where rookie pilots panicked in battle, Gabreski functioned like a robot, dispassionately following the instructions laid out in his military flight manuals.
—Angus Fletcher, Big Think, 29 Sep. 2025
Taking a traditional approach, studying players dispassionately and from a distance, treating them like assets, won’t do.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
Miami Herald, 26 Dec. 2025
Dwight sets the logs ablaze, watching dispassionately as Dunmire burns to a crisp.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
Where rookie pilots panicked in battle, Gabreski functioned like a robot, dispassionately following the instructions laid out in his military flight manuals.
—Angus Fletcher, Big Think, 29 Sep. 2025
Taking a traditional approach, studying players dispassionately and from a distance, treating them like assets, won’t do.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispassionately
Adverb
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If someone talks over you, stay generous yet firm and restate your idea calmly, because centered delivery often wins the room.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Jan. 2026
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The hooded figure is seen walking calmly in an alleyway near the couple's home around the time the killings are believed to have occurred.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Instead, the son of legendary Hollywood director Rob Reiner and producer Michele Singer Reiner stood impassively for the family portrait alongside his siblings.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
15 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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In the video, which is credited to Parade, Nick Jonas can be seen hanging outside the awards show by himself, casually sipping on a water bottle.—
Korin Miller,
SELF,
13 Jan. 2026
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Keds Square-Toe Mary Jane Sneakers Keds are classics for a reason—they’re casually polished and super wearable.—
Annie Blackman,
InStyle,
12 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Every frame is flat, overlit and lovely, like watching footage from somebody’s Italian vacation shot indifferently on an iPhone.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Sep. 2025
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Time flowed past indifferently above us; hours and days had no meaning.—
Garth Greenwell,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Pynchon, in his seventies and eighties, has not grown sentimental so much as stoically absurd.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
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Earlier Monday, Mangione watched stoically in court as prosecutors played surveillance videos showing the killing of Thompson outside the Hilton Hotel in Midtown and his arrest five days later.—
Molly Crane Newman,
Mercury News,
2 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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Cook until just tender and lightly browned, 5 minutes.—
Holly Riordan,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Jan. 2026
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Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle lightly with salt and ground pepper.—
Caron Golden,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Another video shows a different agent (who seconds later kills the driver) nonchalantly walking around the driver’s car (on the passenger side) recording his own video.—
Michael Mcauliffe,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Jan. 2026
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And at Loewe, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez brought their vision to the legacy accessories range with new laptop-sized top-handle bags, carried nonchalantly unzipped with the interior anagram visible.—
Alice Cary,
Vogue,
16 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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The Democrat had joked about shooting the Republican leader of the state House and blithely spoken of watching his children die in their mother’s arms.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
3 Dec. 2025
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Next came a disastrous interview with CBS’s Katie Couric in which Palin seemed to reveal herself to be uninformed and blithely incurious about most things unrelated to Alaska.—
Time,
Time,
3 Nov. 2025
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