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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
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Adjective
  • Proof Carefully To Show Professionalism And Attention To Detail What gets my negative attention are résumés with careless errors—typos, missing words and inconsistent formatting.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • Social media erupted in fear, and disgust, or simply threw shame his way for being careless.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • For example, using Sentinel's canine abilities to identify any unsafe obstacles in the plant to prevent injuries.
    Jamie L. LaReau, Freep.com, 12 July 2025
  • At that time, the home was declared an unsafe structure and was set for demolition, Toussaint said.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • Alleged stabber Larry Boards is facing two counts of felony assault, reckless endangerment, and harassment for the crazed confrontation at the 82nd St.-Jackson Heights No. 7 train station at about 4:15 p.m. Friday, cops said.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 12 July 2025
  • Broadly, the search warrant describes the crimes as first-degree intentional homicide and reckless endangering of safety by use of a deadly weapon.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 10 July 2025

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“Heedless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heedless. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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