impressionability

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Recent Examples of impressionability Your stepson is a teenage boy, the definition of volatility and impressionability. James Parker, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impressionability
Noun
  • But that argument deserves scrutiny, not credulity.
    William J. Brady, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2026
  • To stretch credulity even further beyond the breaking point, Jamie has to walk an untold distance from her house to the area around the venue in order to put her in alignment with Tom.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 24 May 2026
Noun
  • Their bond — both are outsiders who suffered abuse as children — is one of the few emotional soft spots in the otherwise fast-moving series about America’s rotten power structure, manipulative media and the gullibility of the public.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
  • These forces—economic uncertainty, political division, and toxic algorithms—work in a vicious cycle to try and tell us that empathy is weakness… that kindness is gullibility… that sincerity is for suckers.
    DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Davis rooms with his childhood friends Kel (Nicholas Duvernay), who quits medical school in the premiere to pursue his dream of acting, and Josh (Jack Martin), a journalist whose idealism and sense of ethics do not extend to using his media CEO dad to land a gig as a PA on a news show.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 2 June 2026
  • Experts say the shift reflects a broader collision between post-pandemic idealism, economic reality, and significant political shifts.
    Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • Something soured Monday night at Madison Square Garden and the stench of spoilt optimism wafted into Wednesday.
    Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 11 June 2026
  • For limited partners watching distributions dry up and default rates tick higher, the optimism may feel premature.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • The initial photos or videos were ones of unawareness of what is about to go down.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • At the same time, Weinberger added, the greatest treatment obstacle is patients not taking their medications — sometimes due to anosognosia, the unawareness of being ill, which affects 50% to 98% of people with schizophrenia.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Others’ unhinged ignorance can be fun.
    Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026
  • Final negotiations on ‘Peace’ are proceeding, subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way.
    Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • Once, administrators confronted him about the carelessness of his grading.
    Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
  • This is not about carelessness.
    Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • That streak of obliviousness ends here.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2026
  • In Aspen, Wiseman deployed this method to showcase the casual obliviousness of some of his subjects.
    Vikram Murthi, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026

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“Impressionability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impressionability. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.

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