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Brandon Copeland, 25, and Elizabeth Reneedawn Ucman, 26, were arrested in November 2021 shortly after police were called to their City Heights apartment on a report that the baby, Delilah, was unresponsive and in need of medical attention.
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City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2026
Wormley, 23, was found unresponsive in his cell on July 20, 2022.
—Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2026
Police responded to a call about an unresponsive woman seen on the canal bank near 2100 North 27th Place in the early morning of March 6.
—Christian Cervantes, AZCentral.com, 6 Mar. 2026
Sheriff’s deputies had responded to a residence on NE 44th Avenue in Citra, north of Ocala, after a report that the 3-year-old was unresponsive.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2026
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City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2026
Wormley, 23, was found unresponsive in his cell on July 20, 2022.
—Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2026
Police responded to a call about an unresponsive woman seen on the canal bank near 2100 North 27th Place in the early morning of March 6.
—Christian Cervantes, AZCentral.com, 6 Mar. 2026
Sheriff’s deputies had responded to a residence on NE 44th Avenue in Citra, north of Ocala, after a report that the 3-year-old was unresponsive.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unresponsive
Adjective
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Nikita Kucherov had three assists in a four-goal first period and added another in the third to give him 100 points on the season as the Tampa Bay Lightning cruised past the listless Toronto Maple Leafs 5-2 on Saturday night.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Mar. 2026
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Anyway, William chooses to remain drunk, listless, and depressed.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The phrasing is flat, declarative, and uninterested in anecdote; taken together, the dicta sketch a profile that is periodic, age-linked, and seasonal.—
Jan Steyn,
The Dial,
10 Mar. 2026
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The Penguins looked uninterested in skating, more than anything.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
4 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Whitt was demanding lackadaisical players perform up-downs when Sumrall’s booming voice rang out.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 Mar. 2026
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The Timberwolves started 8 of 13 from 3-point range, posted a 40-point first quarter and ballooned their lead to 17 points late in the second quarter before a lackadaisical start to the second half.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The dialogue is overladen with snicker-worthy cliches, a swelling, melodramatic soundtrack that doesn’t match the mood, dubious cameos and plastic, perfunctory life-affirming quotes.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
11 Mar. 2026
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For a director as inspired as Cameron so often is, Fire and Ash felt perfunctory.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
10 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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While Clark was prone to long, unwieldy answers to questions, Meyer is pretty concise and unemotional in his responses.—
Barry M. Bloom,
Forbes.com,
22 Feb. 2026
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The reason why is that all of their star players behaved like Aztec alumnus Kawhi Leonard: unemotional, robotic freaks who do not care about anything other than basketball.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Standing outside her Brooklyn home on Friday, a devastated Wright struggled to understand how the driver who hit her child could be so uncaring.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
7 Mar. 2026
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But dismissing public servants as lazy, overpaid or uncaring ignores the reality of the people doing the work — and undermines our ability to attract the talent needed to govern well.—
John Atkinson,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The public better wake up, because the creativity of the MTA, and Hochul’s gouging of a disinterested and unwise public, have no limits.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
8 Mar. 2026
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Despite its name, detachment dating is not about caring less or acting disinterested.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
3 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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In their own interviews, her castmates range from apathetic to lightly judgmental.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
18 Feb. 2026
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The atmosphere was more apathetic than angry.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Unresponsive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unresponsive. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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