unresponsive

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Recent Examples of unresponsive The teen was found unresponsive in the road and was tended to by police and medics before being transported to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to Krajewski. Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 5 May 2025 Springfield Police Department spokesperson Ryan Walsh said officers responded to reports of an unresponsive person near a bike path at the 1500 block of Hall of Fame Avenue. Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2025 Ski area staff found Page unresponsive near the Upper Maple Slalom trail. Saleen Martin, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025 Police confirmed that emergency services found a woman unresponsive in her home near Perth, Western Australia, on Friday night. Angus Watson, CNN Money, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unresponsive
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unresponsive
Adjective
  • Game 6 was so confounding because the Celtics just looked listless from the start.
    The Athletic NBA Staff, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • While the show was a bit listless at first, everything changed in that fateful moment when Candice and Penner stepped off the mat.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • During the Biden years, Saudi Arabia proved uninterested in using its oil policies to help the United States.
    Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 12 May 2025
  • These are the habitual friction creators, the ones uninterested in dialogue, seeking control, and often resistant to any collaboration.
    Stephen Miles, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • Now then, some angry pundits will excoriate you for being so lackadaisical.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • With over 70 beaches—the most of any Greek island—Milos is a destination for those seeking lackadaisical days spent lounging in and out of cerulean waters.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Time after time, your off-brand chocobo will deliver you to a monster's lair for a perfunctory pummeling while your companions spout exposition.
    James Perkins Mastromarino, NPR, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The doc opens with a perfunctory overview of the artist’s early life, touching briefly on his childhood in Chicago and how the church introduced him to and shaped his musical style.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • As the film opens, a matter-of-fact, unemotional voice shares statistics about children living with poverty, parental abuse and alcoholism in the United States, as the numbers flash in simple white text on a black screen.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire, an underground crime lord and boxer in A Thousand Blows, a neo-Nazi play-acting at being a father in This Is England, a coolly unemotional dystopian leader in Bodies.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Both were crashing bores because of the literally nauseating behavior of fans and the uncaring attitude of the proprietors.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
  • In a world conquered by science, technology, and capitalism, people had grown accustomed to viewing themselves as isolated cogs in a large and uncaring machine.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 18 Nov. 2019
Adjective
  • Until the Suns this season started struggling, losing in Charlotte in January and dropping back-to-back games at Portland in February, looking disconnected and disinterested.
    Doug Haller, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2025
  • If the company were required to get the vote of 50% of disinterested shareholders, Elliott would need to have its position in common stock to vote.
    Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Now, Europe is faced with a U.S. government that is at best apathetic and at worst antagonistic and that appears set on unilaterally shifting the burden of the continent’s security onto its European allies, who must reorganize to fill the gaps.
    Sophia Besch, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2025
  • No one wants to go on bad dates; few people think of themselves as apathetic conversationalists.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 3 May 2025

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“Unresponsive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unresponsive. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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