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Recent Examples of negligence Last May the ruling was confirmed by the Milan Appeal Court, which rejected the charges for a slightly different reason, claiming that Tod’s should not be charged for negligence since those where tier-two subcontractors. Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025 Jayaweera's son Surya is seeking damages for negligence and wrongful death at the statutory minimum amount of $128, 821, according to the complaint filed. Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025 The lawsuit further accuses Tesla of negligence in developing, operating and maintaining its Optimus robots. Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025 Leslie Blake is suing Full Moon Productions, which owns The Beast Haunted House, for negligence and recklessness, according to the lawsuit. Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for negligence
Recent Examples of Synonyms for negligence
Noun
  • In the long, hot summer of 1967, uprisings broke out across more than 150 cities after years of police abuse, segregation, and neglect.
    Josiah Bates, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Jaguar stopped building the XK in 2014, and Infiniti quietly closed the coffin on the Q60 in 2022 after years of neglect.
    Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Irankunda’s goal was the result of Niko Sigur’s carelessness with the ball in Canada’s own half, and Luc de Fougerolles’ inability to clear the ball as well.
    Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • That variation isn’t a byproduct of carelessness or confusion.
    Mark Hay, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • He has also been charged with following too closely, no registration and failure to exercise due care on Interstate 85 in Jackson County, about 62 miles northeast of Atlanta.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • She was charged with reckless driving causing serious impairment of a body function and failure to stop at a scene of accident resulting in serious impairment or death, the prosecutor said.
    Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Anthropic has rebuked federal government efforts to preempt state-level oversight of AI — a notably different stance than that of OpenAI, which has pushed for less regulation.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Still, several voices within the industry have called for better engagement with workers and more consistent oversight.
    Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Employees with administrative privileges were often tricked into authorizing malicious apps, while default permission settings allowed those apps to operate undetected.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • When approached to intervene, brands default to the position that their hands are tied, pointing to the union’s lack of legal status and MoLVT conciliation notes that side with the employer.
    Sourcing Journal, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Negligence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negligence. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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