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Noun
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Only a small percentage of college stars will ever play professionally, and an even tinier number will become wealthy, but the fate of the vast majority of student-athletes is a matter of indifference to the predatory NCAA.—
Guy Lawson,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2025 -
Danes display a curious indifference toward Greenlanders.—
Morten Høi Jensen,
The Dial,
19 June 2025
Noun
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The comedy follows an aspiring gay playwright who — suffering from a summer of writer’s block and apathy in his Encino apartment — embarks on a flamboyant cruise in his imagination, only to discover that his real life is falling apart around him.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2025
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Resistance in high-structure organizations doesn’t come from apathy.—
Anton Schneerson,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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The Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs then assumed the initiative by denying Peru's disinterestedness, charging Peru with seeking to injure Chilean interests by her nitrate measures, and with keeping secret the treaty of alliance between Peru and Bolivia.—
Edwin M. Borchard,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Oct. 2011
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The first had to do with the principle of disinterestedness, which called for partisan politics to be kept out of scholarship and the classroom.—
Louis Menand,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2021
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“Perfunctoriness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perfunctoriness. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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