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Noun
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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
Noun
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The lives of the two children in the story, aged fourteen and four, are portrayed as being as fleeting as the fireflies, and the story is an unsentimental and unflinching account with moments of both tenderness and heartlessness.—
Ginny Tapley Takemori
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Soft, quiet songs emerged as antidotes to cruelty and callousness.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Aug. 2025
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Tom Mari, the local union’s president, said in a statement that the company’s habit of blaming its workers for its refusal to meet them in the middle is a good representation of their callousness toward their customers.—
Matthew Medsger,
Boston Herald,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The water’s mineral content and its softness or hardness comes into play with the fermenting process, Martin said.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Sep. 2025
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Its resistance to denting, measured by the Janka hardness scale, is about three to 10 times higher than common woods.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Related: ‘Neglected diseases’ are anything but neglected by the billion-plus people living with them One possible reason for this obduracy is that noma begins as a dental disease, and dental diseases have long been underappreciated global health concerns.—
John Button,
STAT,
16 Dec. 2023
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Perhaps the greatest testament to Morocco’s obduracy came late in normal time, when Rodri — a central midfielder being deployed as a central defender — strode forward and shot, more in hope than in expectation, from 35 yards.—
Rory Smith,
New York Times,
6 Dec. 2022
Noun
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What interests me is the conversation between surfaces, glossy against matte, the warmth of wood beside the coolness of stone.—
Kissa Castaneda,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Claudia Choose vulnerability over performative coolness, because possible embarrassment is way more powerful than polished detachment.—
Caterina De Biasio,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Same goes if it’s accompanied by other new-to-you symptoms—like numbness, weakness, tingling, fever, weight loss, or issues with bowel or bladder function, all of which can point to conditions that require medical care.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
12 Sep. 2025
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There’s still quite a bit of numbness in my foot and my thigh as well.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Sabrina Carpenter has been accused of insensitivity after a lyric in her new album referenced wishing agoraphobia upon someone.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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In an era where automation underpins everything from customer service to internal HR processes, the line between efficiency and insensitivity has never been thinner.—
Christer Holloman,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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