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as in impulsiveness
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Recent Examples of rashness
And yet, Washington responded to Genet not with rashness and bravado but with restraint made public law.
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Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2026
His audacity and her rashness might surprise some.
—Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
At other times, the result can be both immediate and devastating, as seen in many traffic accidents caused by impatience, inattentiveness, or rashness.
—Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2026
His audacity and her rashness might surprise some.
—Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
At other times, the result can be both immediate and devastating, as seen in many traffic accidents caused by impatience, inattentiveness, or rashness.
—Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rashness
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Last month, Rosen’s office secured the county’s first-ever murder verdict against parents whose child died from fentanyl exposure and ingestion due to their recklessness.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026
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His instincts aren’t so much recklessness as a willingness to act on conviction and let smart people and favorable terms do the work.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
2 June 2026
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That impulsiveness was on display last year when the president pushed the Texas state legislature to gerrymander its electoral maps before the midterms in the hope of maintaining Republican control of Congress.—
Jason Willick,
Washington Post,
26 Apr. 2026
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Malcolm's daughter is struggling in life and school, but her father's genetic toolkit only has belligerence, impulsiveness and thickheadedness, passed on by his on-screen parents.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Apr. 2026
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What few at the time foresaw was that the region could be delivered to China through Trump’s sheer impetuosity, or his inability to think before posting.—
Quico Toro,
The Atlantic,
27 Jan. 2025
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Two centuries later, the Greek historian Polybius contrasted Roman discipline, order, and rationality with Celtic impetuosity, chaos, and passion on the battlefield.—
Michele Gelfand,
Foreign Affairs,
22 June 2021
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Once, administrators confronted him about the carelessness of his grading.—
Peter Hessler,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
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That's not chance or carelessness.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
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Finally, beekeepers had tamed some of the wildness of the hive.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
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Wolf and Munden find opportunities to shoot the children in the same way, creating portrait shots that somehow have a sense of wildness and detachment, and increasingly blurring the line between the boys and their environment.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
20 May 2026
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Stay flexible and embrace the detours, because the sun will join forces with change-maker Uranus today, adding a layer of electricity, impulsivity and unpredictability to the atmosphere.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
22 May 2026
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Into this toxic environment step two young people who briefly glimpse the possibility of something better—only for the surrounding culture of hatred, honor, and impulsivity to destroy them both.—
Steve Denning,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2026
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The heedlessness of the children has touched her mood.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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Rental companies are typically responsible for mechanical breakdowns that aren’t caused by customer negligence or misuse.—
Christopher Elliott,
Mercury News,
1 June 2026
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Florida accused OpenAI of four counts of deceptive and unfair trade practices, two counts of negligence, two counts of violating product liability laws, one count of fraudulent misrepresentation and another count of causing a public nuisance.—
Corbin Bolies,
Variety,
1 June 2026
Cite this Entry
“Rashness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rashness. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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