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Recent Examples of recklessness
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.
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Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
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
Minimizing the importance of his own creative labor is one thing, but Schrader’s remarks read more like philosophical recklessness than individual liberation.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 31 May 2026
The destruction of important files cannot be chalked up to isolated instances of misbehavior or recklessness.
—Amer Matar, The Dial, 26 May 2026
In an effort to send a message to any minors planning to descend on the Jersey Shore for a weekend of lawbreaking and recklessness, Vaz is vowing to prosecute both the offending child and their parents.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026
Instead, jurors convicted him of voluntary manslaughter and two counts of criminal recklessness.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026
Risk avoidance is a sure-fire way to prevent opportunities, but recklessness is the best way to destroy it.
—Seth Lederman, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
These two teams have the worst disciplinary records in the Premier League — neither of them aggressive in any positive sense, but both lacking composure and prone to immaturity and recklessness when the pressure is on.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 15 May 2026
Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
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
Minimizing the importance of his own creative labor is one thing, but Schrader’s remarks read more like philosophical recklessness than individual liberation.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 31 May 2026
The destruction of important files cannot be chalked up to isolated instances of misbehavior or recklessness.
—Amer Matar, The Dial, 26 May 2026
In an effort to send a message to any minors planning to descend on the Jersey Shore for a weekend of lawbreaking and recklessness, Vaz is vowing to prosecute both the offending child and their parents.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026
Instead, jurors convicted him of voluntary manslaughter and two counts of criminal recklessness.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026
Risk avoidance is a sure-fire way to prevent opportunities, but recklessness is the best way to destroy it.
—Seth Lederman, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
These two teams have the worst disciplinary records in the Premier League — neither of them aggressive in any positive sense, but both lacking composure and prone to immaturity and recklessness when the pressure is on.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 15 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for recklessness
Noun
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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
Noun
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And yet, Washington responded to Genet not with rashness and bravado but with restraint made public law.—
Maurizio Valsania,
The Conversation,
9 Jan. 2026
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His audacity and her rashness might surprise some.—
Hanako Montgomery,
CNN Money,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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The heedlessness of the children has touched her mood.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Still, being private isn’t a license to let laxness creep in.—
Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
31 Mar. 2026
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Johnson’s fiscal irresponsibility was never more on display than during the negotiations between the Chicago Board of Education and the Chicago Teachers Union, which resulted in heavy lobbying of Springfield for money for the union and schools.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
29 May 2026
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The most probable path remains the baseline he’s been describing since last fall — debt grinding steadily higher, periodically goosed by crises or political irresponsibility, but partially offset by technological progress and labor force growth.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 May 2026
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“Recklessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recklessness. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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