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Recent Examples of heedless Our goal is to bleed Russia dry with Ukrainian soldiers and sacrifices heedless of the industrial-scale suffering inflicted on the Ukrainian people. Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025 To this day, heedless shootings at parades are not unheard of in the Big Easy. Maurice Carlos Ruffin, TIME, 3 Jan. 2025 The gunman raised the weapon, heedless of a woman standing nearby on the sidewalk. Maria Cramer, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2024 Phishing sites are fraudulent pages that ape secure sites and try to fool heedless visitors into giving away their credentials. PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for heedless
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heedless
Adjective
  • The problem isn’t that general providers are careless, but that their systems and staff simply aren’t built for these edge cases.
    Ari Raptis, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • When businesses are careless and people get hurt, those businesses should be held accountable.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • The officials said its investigation found that a quarter of Jewish students felt physically unsafe on the Ivy League campus, and Jewish and Israeli students were assaulted and spit on.
    June 30, CBS News, 30 June 2025
  • The administration claimed that Harvard failed to act despite being aware that Jewish and Israeli students felt unsafe on campus.
    Natasha Bracken, semafor.com, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • These raids are reckless and sow more chaos and division in our city.
    Anna Commander Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
  • Two other Democrats, however, have denounced the strikes as a reckless escalation.
    Lila Hempel-Edgers, Charlotte Observer, 27 June 2025

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“Heedless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heedless. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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