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Recent Examples on the Web In a pandemic, recovery may be tactless topic to raise in a country where a million people died of the covid virus and millions remain terrified of catching it, especially with the long term side effects still uncertain. Paul Keane, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2024 But until that time, Thomas embodies a no-nonsense journalistic furor — if an occasionally tactless one, given the risks — over the state’s control over information, and over their visit. Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 16 May 2024 Second, its tactless characters provided a useful moral compass. Karla Miller, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024 Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis create an effortless synergy while their higher-ups — played by Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, and Colin Farrell — steal the show by acting out the tactless, HR nightmares that come back to haunt them. James Mercadante and Kelsie Calderon, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for tactless 
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  • With the rise of AI assistants designed to work in specific domains, there is a high risk of these models offering inappropriate answers on sensitive topics, like the chatbot for an eating disorder helpline that was shut down for giving detrimental advice.
    Olga Megorskaya, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Gabriel Ibarra, 27, was charged Monday with child solicitation and inappropriate communication with a child.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2024
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  • The pair also sparred on a more indelicate campaign trail moment.
    Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Clutch effort is Herculean, and shifting—like the recoil of a big-bore automatic handgun—is indelicate but infinitely satisfying.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2024
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  • The female driver, whose name has not been released, was charged with careless driving causing injury, according to WPBF and WFOR-TV.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
  • If companies are careless, AI will replicate the same biases as human decision-making.
    Dr. Vic Baker, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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  • If the audit resulted in finding improper charges or misapplied rates, those savings could be redirected into essential public services.
    Eric Steele, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The article and the judge’s quote were referenced by the judicial panel in the admonishment as improper.
    Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
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  • So maybe use the feelings aroused by your sister-in-law’s thoughtless, certainly injudicious, possibly naughty remark as an opportunity to rise above.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2024
  • What The Meng Episode Means (1): Is Huawei A Tool of The CCP? Meng’s release, and injudicious remarks, do not bode well for Huawei.
    George Calhoun, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
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  • Classical After a buzzing opening night complete with an indiscreet bait and switch—Josh Groban headlined after an ever-busy Cynthia Erivo had to withdraw—next up for the New York Philharmonic is a celebration of Afromodernism.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
  • That might hurt more than any indiscreet attacks on Walden and Stephanopoulos.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2024
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  • Sofia has taken Francis, and Sal Maroni is right on her heels with a bunch of his goons to give Oz a few whacks with one of his own stupid golf clubs, then down to the trolley station to take over the Bliss operation.
    Andy Andersen, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The risk, of course, is that the North Koreans will learn what those Russian marines learned recently: that their commanders are cruel, ignorant or both—and that following stupid orders from uncaring officers is bad for your health.
    David Axe, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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  • Aziz Taher/Reuters Indeed, Mr. Biden’s exasperation with Mr. Netanyahu exploded in a recent phone call between the two, when the president reportedly shouted at the Israeli prime minister and told him in heated undiplomatic terms to stop misleading him.
    Howard LaFranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Defense experts told Newsweek that the sentiment behind Trump's rhetoric, though perhaps undiplomatic, can be viewed as a continuation of previous administrations' stances.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024

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