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Recent Examples of negligence Green Bay reaped the benefits of the negligence of rival squads, adding one of the best players in football to a roster that already had Super Bowl potential prior to even acquiring Parsons. Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025 Some homicides aren’t charged as murder or manslaughter cases, such as a July arson death ruled to have been reckless and deadly negligence, further obscuring a definitive number. Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2025 Believing in curiosity over negligence turns potential conflict into an opportunity for collaboration. Dr. Cynthia J. Young, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025 The lawsuit alleges a lack of informed consent and negligence, specifically the failure to implement preventative measures against blood clots, contributed to his death. Jessica Van Egeren, jsonline.com, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for negligence
Recent Examples of Synonyms for negligence
Noun
  • Like most extended car warranty providers, CarShield excludes pre-existing conditions that existed before your warranty took effect, as well as damage resulting from poor maintenance, neglect or intentional abuse.
    Brian Sloan, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Cash remains hopeful that the provision will be implemented later because cameras could both exonerate teachers who have been falsely accused of neglect and provide evidence against those teachers who do not follow state protocols.
    IndyStar, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Recently, fans and the media have been focusing more on him due to his recurring mistakes, apparently caused by carelessness with and without the ball, as well as his spotty health record.
    Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The sequence is incredibly disturbing, underlining the carelessness with which Prodigy has been treating these overgrown children.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In May 2018, one of the funicular’s cars derailed due to a serious maintenance failure of its wheels, although the car did not overturn and no one was injured, according to Público, a Portuguese daily national newspaper.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • An incident report submitted to the state by Energy Transfer attributed the pipeline failure to a technician’s errors.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Her list continues with small but frustrating oversights.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Stern, who is 71, first signed with satellite radio broadcaster Sirius in 2004 (prior to its merger with XM), in part to be free of oversight by the FCC, which had levied millions of dollars in fines on terrestrial radio stations that carried his show for alleged indecency.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Earlier this week, a US judge ruled Google’s deal with Apple to make its search engine the default on all devices can continue.
    James Peckham, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This benefits Apple as Google pays the company billions per year to be the default search engine on iPhones.
    Pia Singh, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Negligence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negligence. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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