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Noun
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The meeting between Trump and Putin is further evidence of Trump’s indifference to Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, his war crimes, and his threat to our European allies.—
Tom Zirpoli,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Aug. 2025 -
Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the equal-weight S & P 500 tagged new highs this week before faltering a bit, a sign either of fatigue or late-summer indifference.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
16 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Whatever the reason, Maxwell’s strength and the shark’s apparent unconcern put one of Maxwell’s friends in danger.—
Donald Millus,
Outdoor Life,
3 July 2025
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But the other pole, blithe unconcern, carries its own dangers.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
Noun
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Side effects can include rash, pain, swelling, or hardness at the site of injection.—
Anna Halkidis,
Parents,
4 July 2025
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This action served to strengthen those walls, thus increasing the stiffness and hardness of the wood by 260.5% and 127%, respectively.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
29 Apr. 2025
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In its breadth and aloofness, Death to Order feels like a distant cousin of Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Johan Grimonprez’s cavorting 1997 documentary about airliner hijackings.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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In short, any time the Obama administration has seemed to embrace a policy of regime change as heartily as the first-term Bush administration did, China has stopped supporting multilateral responses to regional and civil conflicts and pulled back to its earlier aloofness.—
Thomas J. Christensen,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Sep. 2015
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“Stiffness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stiffness. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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