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Recent Examples of dispassion Is the audience supposed to admire her stout dispassion, or suspect that her moral compass has spun out of control? Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2024 And the agency has consistently performed those duties with rigor and dispassion. Eva Temkin, STAT, 14 Dec. 2023 The tone is one of admiring dispassion, the approach at times discreet to the point of inertia. Michelle Orange, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 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
  • Yet this process suggests a disturbing detachment from the very people who most deserve a second chance.
    Sreedhar Potarazu, Baltimore Sun, 19 July 2025
  • Another 2023 study found that this tendency to escape from discomfort is encompassed by three dimensions: Reality detachment.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Because the investment piece, the kernel of the entire investment thesis is independence and objectivity.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Aug. 2025
  • For Diamandis, the protocols of scientific caution and objectivity can seem as coercive as the hallmarks of aging.
    Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025

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“Dispassion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispassion. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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