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Recent Examples of impressionability
Your stepson is a teenage boy, the definition of volatility and impressionability.
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James Parker, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
James Parker, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impressionability
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But the idea that athletic departments and their associated fundraising arms should be classified as tax-exempt nonprofits promoting education and amateur sports strains credulity.—
Andrew Urbaczewski,
The Conversation,
2 Apr. 2026
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These kinds of leaks inevitably inspire breathless credulity on one side and cynical takes about the endless, investment-seeking hype cycle on the other.—
Julia Black,
Vanity Fair,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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
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The Enlightenment faith in reason, science, and free speech, already weakened by the First World War, had been devastated by an unprecedented bureaucracy of mass death, sustained by technology, systematic deceit, widespread gullibility, and eager acquiescence.—
Victor J. Blue,
Harpers Magazine,
23 Nov. 2025
Noun
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These and the other documents related to him chart his shift from cautious idealism to alarm.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Mclusky were always rooted more in bile than hormones, contempt and wit over quick-burn idealism.—
Alex Robert Ross,
Pitchfork,
25 Mar. 2026
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Initial optimism about right-hander Cade Horton’s forearm strain instead became another worst-case scenario Tuesday, when Cubs manager Craig Counsell revealed that Horton has a torn ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) and will undergo season-ending surgery.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2026
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Macron also welcomed the ceasefire announcement and expressed optimism that it would be respected on the ground.—
Will Clark,
NBC news,
8 Apr. 2026
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The initial photos or videos were ones of unawareness of what is about to go down.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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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
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And both reckon with the extent to which historical ignorance and the calculated distortion of the past threaten the foundation on which our country was built.—
Francine Prose,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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That denial of reality — rooted in ignorance and contempt for science — is now official policy, as evidenced by the EPA’s rescinding of its landmark finding that greenhouse gases harm public health.—
James Speyer,
New York Daily News,
4 Apr. 2026
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The officials’ performance reflected carelessness in the process.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
30 Mar. 2026
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Kerry Doyle, the former top ICE attorney during the Biden administration, said Mazzara’s comments show a shocking carelessness about the potential for harm against both the general public and the officers he was employed to protect.—
Andrea Castillo,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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After a two-hour tale of comical deception, betrayal, emotional cruelty, insensitivity and obliviousness, the audience is expected to swallow a message of caring and community.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
27 Feb. 2026
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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 11 Apr. 2026.
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