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as in inanimate
lacking animate awareness or sensation she spoke politely even to the unfeeling virtual assistant on her phone

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Recent Examples of unfeeling The author renders the four-year-old Margaret’s inner life with sensitive complexity, depicting an alert child logic that defies adults’ view of her as slow and unfeeling. The New Yorker, 12 June 2024 That’s because for decades, reptiles have been characterized as cold, unfeeling, and even primitive creatures. Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2024 But as the film unspools and Agent Smith comes face to face with Neo and his master Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), Weaving begins showing signs that this AI is not so unfeeling, not so unbothered after all. Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2024 Theirs is a vast and unfeeling appetite for reassurance, and it must not be given room to grow. Harper's BAZAAR, 27 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for unfeeling
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Adjective
  • As a member of a crew that robs banks, Mr. Blonde is the most ruthless.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 July 2025
  • President Donald Trump has mounted a ruthless onslaught on the checks and balances established in the Constitution.
    Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • The tips of my fingers are numb, and my toes are also numb.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025
  • Her mother, Keily Chinchilla, says Bustillo has often been forced to sleep on the floor, her spine seizing from inflammation, her left arm and half her face numb.
    Dhruv Mehrotra, Wired News, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • Partners View all partners Tropical reefs might look like inanimate rock, but these colorful seascapes are built by tiny jellyfish-like animals called corals.
    Noam Vogt-Vincent, The Conversation, 6 June 2025
  • Still, what separates living, breathing beings from inanimate matter remains frustratingly set in my mind.
    Elizabeth Rush, The Atlantic, 26 May 2025
Adjective
  • While Charlie Brown played things safe, Snoopy lived an exuberant life in his imagination, casting himself as a frustrated novelist, gleeful dancer, merciless attorney and even a prolific flying ace in a World War I Sopwith Camel.
    Chris Carra, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
  • Players have openly voiced their struggles with its deep rough, lightning-fast greens, and merciless bunkers.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • In some cases, AI feedback forced Martinez to reflect on how unconscious bias may have shaped his original assessment.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 8 July 2025
  • Used responsibly, these systems can offer clearer benchmarks and reduce unconscious bias.
    Andrew Fennell, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
Adjective
  • And most of those business people tend to have rather stony, cold, dead eyes.
    Andrew Tobias, Vulture, 7 July 2025
  • The reef is home to 45 species of stony corals, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and 6,000 species of marine line total.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • Live 00:00 06:12 06:12 Officials give timeline of response efforts as floods impacted Texas 06:12 Kerrville Police Community Services Officer Chief Jonathan Lamb painted a somber picture of how the morning of July 4 unfolded as floods took over Hunt, when most residents were asleep.
    NBC News, NBC news, 10 July 2025
  • Tolbert’s 10-year-old son was on a couch playing video games while his 4-year-old brother was asleep next to him at their home in the 3600 block of West Palmer Street in the Logan Square neighborhood, according to prosecutors.
    Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • The brain, like other internal organs, is insensate, its lack of sensory receptors attested by videos of virtuoso violinists who play on unfazed as neurosurgeons go to work inside their skulls.
    Matthew Ponsford, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
  • But states have used midazolam alone — and at much higher doses — in executions since 2013, claiming the drug will render people insensate to pain before the administration of other lethal injection drugs.
    Lauren Gill, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2023

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“Unfeeling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfeeling. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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