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Noun
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This week’s report about yet another death at a county jail run by the Sheriff’s Department was painfully familiar in its portrait of cruel indifference to the health of inmates and the overt signs the agency isn’t being truthful about key events in the tragedy.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 May 2025 -
One partner may interpret the other’s lack of responsiveness as indifference, while the other may simply not realize anything is amiss.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
Noun
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Most of Ukraine’s ravaged cultural sites are like the shelled Reims Cathedral: perhaps not directly targeted, but destroyed with ruthless unconcern.—
Jason Farago,
New York Times,
27 Dec. 2022
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Marked by the artist’s apparent unconcern with conventional modeling and draftsmanship and by the velvety smoothness of his brushwork, the paintings exude an aura of quietude and utter perfection unrivaled in the work of his peers.—
Mary Tompkins Lewis,
WSJ,
26 Nov. 2022
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In what many call the performance of his career, his character’s stoicism begins to unravel in the face of medical burnout, personal guilt and moral ambiguity.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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But even the most sensitive parenting can’t fully insulate boys from the cultural forces that equate masculinity with stoicism, dominance, and economic power—pressures that can shape male identity across class lines, and that can have societal reverberations.—
Joshua Coleman,
The Atlantic,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Both men were prone to flashes of brilliance, ultimately lost in a haze of injury and apathy.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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What some perceive as apathy is actually self-preservation.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 May 2025
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While Ramaphosa kept his composure and the meeting did not go off the rails like the infamous February meeting in the Oval Office between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the South African president was clearly put on his heels by Trump’s tactics.—
Brett Samuels,
The Hill,
21 May 2025
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This involves behaviors like using silence effectively, speaking with conviction, and making the tough calls with composure.—
Scott Hutcheson,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
Noun
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In one instance, Lisa is aghast to find a gun in his house, but her anxiety about his involvement with a local resistance group feels no more dramatic than her frustration with Basem’s reticence about the dissolution of his family.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
11 Apr. 2025
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That reticence could conceivably involve suppressing concerns about how the U.S. military’s increasing involvement in domestic missions is placing strains on resources and readiness.—
Risa Brooks,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Stoniness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stoniness. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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