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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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Bianco’s callousness is appalling.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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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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Their works push back against the coldness of technology, asserting presence, autonomy, and creative resistance.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
24 Sep. 2025
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Thematically, this episode is awash in the color blue itself, which many fans interpret as symbolizing coldness and detachment from the music industry.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
23 Sep. 2025
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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
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Meghan Markle was accused of insensitivity by a British tabloid after filming a video from her car seat less than a mile from the tunnel where Princess Diana died.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
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Interestingly, the lifetimes achieved now surpass typical timescales for cosmic ray impacts, suggesting some level of insensitivity by cat qubits to such events.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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Finally, impact strength assesses a material’s ability to absorb sudden shocks without shattering, highlighting that the hardness alone doesn’t always mean toughness.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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Minerals like calcium and magnesium can cling to the surface over time, especially in areas with high water hardness.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The floor spattered with boredom and apathy.—
Zuzana Říhová,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
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Disengagement is rarely born out of mere apathy.—
Eyal Benishti,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Hard-heartedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard-heartedness. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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