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Recent Examples of unresponsive
The person then became unresponsive after being taken into custody, according to Oakland police.
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Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
Kline was found lying unresponsive in the street near her home’s driveway with a head wound.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2025
When police arrived, Owens was unresponsive.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
But Hatton missed an appearance at an event a day later and his manager had arrived at his house on the morning of the 14th to take him to a flight to Dubai, where Hatton was found unresponsive.
—Ben Morse, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
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Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
Kline was found lying unresponsive in the street near her home’s driveway with a head wound.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2025
When police arrived, Owens was unresponsive.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
But Hatton missed an appearance at an event a day later and his manager had arrived at his house on the morning of the 14th to take him to a flight to Dubai, where Hatton was found unresponsive.
—Ben Morse, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unresponsive
Adjective
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The Broncos were at the listless, rudderless end of The Bowlen Trust Years.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
15 Oct. 2025
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Hiring activity has been listless this year, and the latest data isn’t showing much of a turnaround.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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High school graduates uninterested in traditional campus life view SOAR™ as a flexible, lower-cost alternative.—
Jason Phillips,
Freep.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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Only four hundred are still detained, Pinochet assured him, which wasn’t true, but Kissinger seemed uninterested in the numbers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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However the United Farmworkers Union has contended that staff shortages and lackadaisical management prevent the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health, better known as Cal/OSHA, from effectively enforcing those rules, leading to workers’ debilitating conditions and even death.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
3 Oct. 2025
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Those helped speed up gentrification by attracting wealthy mainland investors with tax incentives and the PROMESA Act by President Obama in 2016, as well as the lackadaisical response by President Trump’s government during and after Hurricane Maria in 2017.—
Angel Diaz,
Billboard,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Many felt Thibodeau, who was the Knicks' head coach for the previous five seasons, was stuck in the NBA of the 1990s with his slowdown offense and refusal to give bench players more than a perfunctory amount of playing time.—
Robert Marvi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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Weirder and more high-concept than nearly any other horror franchise, they’re filled to the brim with mind-bending oddities that elevate even the more perfunctory entries.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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That’s the image projected by Chicago’s pragmatic, unemotional manager, Craig Counsell, who continues to get lustily booed in his hometown.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Inadequate manager preparation: Many managers receive little to no training on how to handle layoff conversations with sensitivity, often defaulting to brief, unemotional exchanges that feel insulting to departing employees.—
Caroline Castrillon,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Lady Luck and Mister Fate can be a mean couple, uncaring of you or me.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
16 Sep. 2025
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Thompson starred in DaCosta’s debut feature Little Woods, a thoughtful, emotional thriller about two sisters just trying to survive in an expensive, uncaring world.—
Jourdain Searles,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But if Ross decides to dump McDaniel, it would be justified after Sunday’s lifeless effort littered with penalties (11 for 103), foolish mistakes and the appearance of a team that was unprepared and disinterested.—
Barry Jackson
Updated October 19,
Miami Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
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Lyra’s quest to understand Dust brings her into confrontation with human and other worldly forces who champion moral absolutism over imagination, ignorance over knowledge, authoritarianism over free will and cold, disinterested rationality over empathy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Starving children stopped playing and appeared sluggish or apathetic; cognitive development seemed to halt or even regress.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2025
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These citizens are not apathetic.—
Tom Lopach,
Time,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Unresponsive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unresponsive. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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