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Recent Examples of oblivious But these characters — oblivious hipsters with limited prospects and even more limited resources — couldn’t be more different from Allen’s affluent and accomplished Upper West Siders. Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 9 May 2025 Miraculously, those same analysts are oblivious to cost of diverting dozens of cases from federal courts into our state court system and creating juicy financial incentives for lawsuits to multiply. Mark Hillman, Denver Post, 16 Apr. 2025 Lily sits on a chair at the edge of the room, oblivious of everyone, singing to herself. David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025 People are deeply moved by some aspect of it and sometimes seemingly oblivious to other aspects of it. Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for oblivious
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Adjective
  • When Martone was personally attacked with deepfake pornography, the content was posted on social media and emailed to her employer with demands to fire Martone, unaware that Martone was the company CEO.
    Kim Elsesser, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • But lawyers can hardly be unaware of the pitfalls for their own profession in failing to monitor bots’ outputs.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • Trump has no knowledge of military history and has surrounded himself with advisers equally ignorant.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2025
  • Anger materializes in people who are toxic and ignorant.
    Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2025

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“Oblivious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oblivious. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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