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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
Noun
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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
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Even if viewers didn’t know what direction Russia eventually took under Putin, however, the character’s powerful but coiled demeanor quickly makes apparent that such credulity has consequences.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
20 May 2026
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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In contrast, Lesieur underscores the boundless agility and fragile idealism of Bonnier de La Chapelle.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
25 May 2026
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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
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Trump had expressed optimism to the Washington Examiner about seeing the bill on his desk this week.—
Claire Carter,
The Washington Examiner,
20 May 2026
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Investors certainly have plenty of reasons for optimism in an economy soaked with AI cash.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
20 May 2026
Noun
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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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The most dangerous blind spot in leadership is not ignorance.—
Karl Moore,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
18 May 2026
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This is not about carelessness.—
Lien De Pau,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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The company has built its identity around taking AI safety more seriously than its rivals, creating sky-high expectations for model security that jar with its apparent carelessness; the fact that Mythos was exposed through such a basic and predictable failure only underscores that.—
Robert Hart,
The Verge,
23 Apr. 2026
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Feel-good party music is usually rooted in escapism, or simple obliviousness, while socially conscious art tends toward the bleak, especially these days.—
Will Lynch,
Pitchfork,
11 May 2026
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His obliviousness is what’s also somewhat endearing but also what’s grounding.—
Carly Thomas,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Impressionability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impressionability. Accessed 26 May. 2026.
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