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verb

past tense of neglect

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Recent Examples of neglected
Adjective
But the area where these cuts will be felt most acutely is with respect to elder abuse, which is already a neglected area of health care and social services. Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025 By upcycling a neglected garment, Hirsch hopes to give someone the chance to experience the beauty and craftsmanship that goes into creating a piece. Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Verb
Citizens should not be asked to fund systems where safety is neglected. Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 10 Sep. 2025 Like Jay Kelly, Sentimental Value is about a filmmaker who neglected his family in order to focus on his career — a character played by the veteran Swedish thespian Stellan Skarsgård, who will probably duke it out with Sandler for the best supporting actor Oscar. Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for neglected
Recent Examples of Synonyms for neglected
Adjective
  • Additionally, several existing dilapidated buildings on the site will be demolished and their concrete recycled and partly reused to realize the new structures.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Dayna is unemployed and newly single, and an out-of-the-blue opportunity to fix up a dilapidated mansion into an influencer house seems like her ticket to a new life.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The evening was slightly chaotic and quickly unsynchronized as the first dinner group, which included Sunisa Lee, Fabolous and more, ignored initial invitations to sit in lieu of sunset views of the East River from the 63rd floor balcony.
    Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Mendoza ignored what her contract said.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Safdie, however, never forgot about it.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Cali forgot who’d dropped the ball.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Yet most failed to note the hospital’s long-standing use as a base for Hamas operations.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Although his shoes contained 10 ounces of highly explosive material, his attempt to light the fuse failed because of foot perspiration.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Thousands of abandoned and derelict vessels around the US pose environmental and navigational challenges.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The 33 towns being considered for this project, which are expected to meet final approval in the coming weeks, are all on the brink of extinction with the number of empty and abandoned houses outnumbering those that are inhabited.
    Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Could you have inadvertently been omitted from a list of employee birthdays?
    Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The snide discussion of the couple’s relationship, with its suggestion of gold digging on the part of Grey (or at least her mother), omitted some significant details.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Neglected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neglected. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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