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Recent Examples of recklessness
The destruction of important files cannot be chalked up to isolated instances of misbehavior or recklessness.
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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
Westbrook’s recklessness was costly last year.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 13 May 2026
But urgency can’t become recklessness.
—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 11 May 2026
The criminal recklessness of these two defendants killed their own child.
—Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 9 May 2026
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
Westbrook’s recklessness was costly last year.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 13 May 2026
But urgency can’t become recklessness.
—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 11 May 2026
The criminal recklessness of these two defendants killed their own child.
—Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 9 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for recklessness
Noun
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This is not about carelessness.—
Lien De Pau,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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The company has built its identity around taking AI safety more seriously than its rivals, creating sky-high expectations for model security that jar with its apparent carelessness; the fact that Mythos was exposed through such a basic and predictable failure only underscores that.—
Robert Hart,
The Verge,
23 Apr. 2026
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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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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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Yankees starter Carlos Rodón made his season debut and held Milwaukee hitless for the first 3 2/3 innings, but the Brewers erased a two-run deficit and took the lead in the fourth inning by capitalizing on the left-hander’s wildness.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 May 2026
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OpenAI is currently defending at least eight federal lawsuits alleging psychological harms, negligence, and wrongful deaths attributed to ChatGPT, with at least five of those complaints framed as wrongful death claims.—
Jason Snyder,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2026
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Many of the deaths prompted lawsuits alleging negligence by jail staff and health care providers.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 May 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
Noun
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California’s High-Speed Rail has devolved into a case study of bureaucratic incompetence and fiscal irresponsibility.—
Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards,
Mercury News,
26 May 2026
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This has ensured that fiscal irresponsibility generates solid political benefits at no political cost.—
Jared Bernstein,
The Atlantic,
25 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Recklessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recklessness. Accessed 29 May. 2026.
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