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Recent Examples of negligence The law requires the gun industry to prevent unlawful possession, use, marketing or sale of their products and opens them up to be sued for negligence in unlawful acts committed with their guns. David Matthews, New York Daily News, 11 July 2025 The Superior Court judge, Harold Kahn, tossed out a series of other claims, including negligent misrepresentation, defamation, retaliation, negligence and harassment. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 10 July 2025 And a 2024 review of such infections notes that other factors beyond negligence, such as chronic disease and age, can increase the risk of post-surgical infection. Paul Sisson, Mercury News, 10 July 2025 Potentially the largest risk of unschooling is falling into a trap of educational negligence. Taylor Grothe, Parents, 9 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for negligence
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Noun
  • Police always investigate a drowning to rule out cases of abuse or extreme neglect, but an absent-minded parent accidentally forgetting to lock the pool gate or door to the backyard was unlikely to land them behind bars, Hoskin said.
    Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 12 July 2025
  • Not only in the United States, where academic medical centers (AMCs) are strained by politics, profit models and bureaucracy—but also in countries like Mexico, where health systems are crumbling under neglect and underfunding.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • One clear failure that was identified in the numerous reviews that have taken place since the shooting was a lack of accountability surrounding who was in charge that day.
    Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 12 July 2025
  • Smith was charged with a traffic offense - failure to yield resulting in a fatality, a source close to the situation told PEOPLE.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • My experience shows that with careful planning, responsible AI practices and human oversight, agentic AI not only addresses today’s support challenges but also paves the way for entirely new service models.
    Varun Milind Kulkarni, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
  • Arizona passed a law creating an independent oversight office for state prisons.
    Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2025
Noun
  • Casual doxing—revealing someone’s IRL identity—is now a default, because there’s no clear boundary between our lives online and off.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 23 July 2025
  • Root Cause: Logs were written to ephemeral container storage using Docker's default configuration and were lost when the container restarted.
    Raju Dandigam, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025

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“Negligence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negligence. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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