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Recent Examples of unresponsive
Then Perret showed her three photographs of an unresponsive woman being raped by three different men.
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Gaby Wood, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2026
Fuller was found unresponsive in his apartment.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 21 Feb. 2026
People will begin to find rigid, unresponsive buildings uncomfortable.
—Nathanael Bondu, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2026
Nenko Stanev Gantchev, 56, was found unresponsive on the floor of his cell the day before, ICE said.
—Julia Avant, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
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Gaby Wood, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2026
Fuller was found unresponsive in his apartment.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 21 Feb. 2026
People will begin to find rigid, unresponsive buildings uncomfortable.
—Nathanael Bondu, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2026
Nenko Stanev Gantchev, 56, was found unresponsive on the floor of his cell the day before, ICE said.
—Julia Avant, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unresponsive
Adjective
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The Moment is a comedy with almost no effective jokes, a listless sense of pacing, and cinematography that is stylized but really not that stylish.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
24 Feb. 2026
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Children have become listless and suffered blotchy rashes, coughing and coughing spasms, dehydration and secondary infections including pneumonias.—
Jennifer Berry Hawes,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Soon her two boys, Noah and Nico, found her – unsure about the commotion and clearly uninterested in the magnitude of the moment.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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His latest move from Los Angeles to Cleveland might have been his most pleasant divorce, which came partly because the Clippers were uninterested in guaranteeing his contract for next season.—
Jason Lloyd,
New York Times,
15 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Some regard sociology as a gut major that caters to lackadaisical students.—
Wendy Nelson Espeland,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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The defense was lackadaisical at best, while the offense wasn’t much better.—
Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
7 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Interest in the All-Star Game and surrounding events has steadily declined this century, to the point where the weekend feels perfunctory to some.—
J.J. Bailey,
New York Times,
15 Feb. 2026
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To revive an event that had trended toward perfunctory and missable, the NFL made a couple of changes in recent years.—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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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
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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
Adjective
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In any lesser performance, that character could’ve hardened into a villainous fairy-tale creature, the uncaring mother who has abandoned her child for the sake of her own unnatural career ambitions.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
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And you’ll be known in history as the Christmas Miracle, five fragile lives tossed on the treacherous, uncaring currents of history, and the sea.—
Gawon Bae,
CNN Money,
25 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Not all municipalities were as eager to get involved as Fredlund learned in approaching a disinterested official.—
Sarah Kyrcz,
Hartford Courant,
22 Feb. 2026
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For all of his talent, Marshall seemed disinterested at times in 2020 and wasn’t always committed to finishing his routes or running them with consistent intensity.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
4 Feb. 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 25 Feb. 2026.
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