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Recent Examples of insensitivity
Meghan Markle was accused of insensitivity by a British tabloid after filming a video from her car seat less than a mile from the tunnel where Princess Diana died.
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Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Interestingly, the lifetimes achieved now surpass typical timescales for cosmic ray impacts, suggesting some level of insensitivity by cat qubits to such events.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
In an era where automation underpins everything from customer service to internal HR processes, the line between efficiency and insensitivity has never been thinner.
—Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Interestingly, the lifetimes achieved now surpass typical timescales for cosmic ray impacts, suggesting some level of insensitivity by cat qubits to such events.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
In an era where automation underpins everything from customer service to internal HR processes, the line between efficiency and insensitivity has never been thinner.
—Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insensitivity
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Convincing Laurel and Mickey not to have children, refusing to let Mickey take time to recover his health, his callousness and cruelty toward them — it all added up and pushed her over the edge.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
13 Oct. 2025
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Bianco’s callousness is appalling.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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The lives of the two children in the story, aged fourteen and four, are portrayed as being as fleeting as the fireflies, and the story is an unsentimental and unflinching account with moments of both tenderness and heartlessness.—
Ginny Tapley Takemori
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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Essentially, they’re used to meeting an expectation where rudeness and thoughtlessness aren’t tolerated—because their older sister made sure of that.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
18 Sep. 2025
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Maybe the symptoms of his cognitive decline are inextricable from what seemed to you to be his general self-absorption and thoughtlessness.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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Their works push back against the coldness of technology, asserting presence, autonomy, and creative resistance.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
24 Sep. 2025
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Thematically, this episode is awash in the color blue itself, which many fans interpret as symbolizing coldness and detachment from the music industry.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
23 Sep. 2025
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Related: ‘Neglected diseases’ are anything but neglected by the billion-plus people living with them One possible reason for this obduracy is that noma begins as a dental disease, and dental diseases have long been underappreciated global health concerns.—
John Button,
STAT,
16 Dec. 2023
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Perhaps the greatest testament to Morocco’s obduracy came late in normal time, when Rodri — a central midfielder being deployed as a central defender — strode forward and shot, more in hope than in expectation, from 35 yards.—
Rory Smith,
New York Times,
6 Dec. 2022
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Li, a writer whose stories are compressed and deceptively simple, spoke with humor and a certain hardness, perhaps born of the clarity of unimaginable loss.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Oct. 2025
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Finally, impact strength assesses a material’s ability to absorb sudden shocks without shattering, highlighting that the hardness alone doesn’t always mean toughness.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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Loewe was fresh and vibrant, with hints of Spanish roots and a touch of coolness and sexiness.—
Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
8 Oct. 2025
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The slant to the sun and the coolness when the sun goes down signal that the fall season will indeed arrive.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
21 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Insensitivity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insensitivity. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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