unheeding

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unheeding
Adjective
  • His specialty is now the heedless hero whose certainty about his righteousness drives him to extremes.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • His Victor is the product of a coddling mother (Mia Goth), who dies young and leaves him emotionally adrift, and a domineering father (Charles Dance), who molds him into a brilliant but heedless inventor.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Kendall took off his shirt, unmindful of the scar slashing down his torso.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The unmindful construction planning, noise and light pollution, and Tesla traffic jams have meanwhile done nothing to endear the diner to those living nearby — the lifeblood of most successful restaurants — and anti-Musk demonstrators are organizing a series of protests at the location.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2025
Adjective
  • Told by a mate that just such a brawl is brewing, Jacob (Will Harrison, excellent) goes flying toward an oblivious bystander, fist first, knocking the unsuspecting victim to the ground.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Pixels are flying from shelves as users embrace the AI generation, still oblivious to most of the privacy compromises implied in over-sharing with AI assistants operating in corporate data centers.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s the interest in Britney Spears and pop icons who had been assumed to be vacant, unthinking ingénues.
    Brandon Tensley, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The point is made: Pinocchio might have a hole where his heart should be, but is the unthinking servile person any less hollow?
    Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • The campaign also claimed that Barrien was unaware that Lee is nonbinary.
    Samantha Riedel, Them., 29 Sep. 2025
  • The players were initially unaware that person would be Nuno Espirito Santo.
    Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Tips for riders Be prepared for inattentive drivers by staying focused on riding and keeping your speed in check.
    Mars King, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The remark was striking in its directness and suggested the pilot may have been inattentive at a critical moment.
    Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In the critical texts and curatorial essays reprinted here, Enwezor repeatedly engaged with artists who were on their own conscious or unconscious quests for identities that could not be reduced to their appearances or to the way their lives had been historicized.
    Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Chop off the unconscious scientist's hand!
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • One of the strongest scenes in this episode is Maeve teaching the unknowing captive Sam how to swim.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The book opens with amnesia—the author’s and her mother’s—and from this place of unknowing, Rojas starts to examine her family’s history in Colombia, especially her grandfather Nono’s life as a curandero (shaman).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Unheeding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unheeding. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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