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Recent Examples of unresponsive
Police found a woman in a vehicle who had been shot and was unresponsive.
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Katie Langford, Denver Post, 28 Oct. 2025
Alicia Stone, 40, a 13-year NYPD veteran assigned to the Internal Affairs Bureau, died Thursday at the Fundacion Valle del Lili hospital in Cali, Colombia, shortly after she was found unresponsive in her hotel room, police sources said.
—Rocco Parascandola, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
First responders found Campbell, limp, pale and unresponsive in Kurek's vehicle.
—Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
During a search of the fast-food chain, officers found a delivery driver unresponsive before he was pronounced dead at the scene following unsuccessful medical aid, officials said.
—Paloma Chavez, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
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Katie Langford, Denver Post, 28 Oct. 2025
Alicia Stone, 40, a 13-year NYPD veteran assigned to the Internal Affairs Bureau, died Thursday at the Fundacion Valle del Lili hospital in Cali, Colombia, shortly after she was found unresponsive in her hotel room, police sources said.
—Rocco Parascandola, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
First responders found Campbell, limp, pale and unresponsive in Kurek's vehicle.
—Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
During a search of the fast-food chain, officers found a delivery driver unresponsive before he was pronounced dead at the scene following unsuccessful medical aid, officials said.
—Paloma Chavez, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unresponsive
Adjective
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In total, the men would spend 144 days aboard the listless vessel, until they were rescued June 15 by a Japanese fishing ship about 700 miles from Honolulu and 4,000 miles from Costa Rica.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
3 Nov. 2025
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Ohtani—the Dodgers’ 10-year, $700 million man—came into the game with one hit in the best-of-seven series against the listless Milwaukee Brewers, who now trail 3-0 after losing, 3-1, at Dodger Stadium Thursday night.—
Barry M. Bloom,
Sportico.com,
17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The women are uninterested in relitigating what happened.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
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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
Adjective
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There’s a sanguine sweetness to the proceedings, and a lackadaisical approach to dry joke delivery that sort of resembles Wes Anderson’s stop-motion work like The Fantastic Mr. Fox (and to a lesser degree his live-action movies).—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
22 Oct. 2025
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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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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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He is learned, frail, accomplished, absent, selfish and unemotional.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
2 Oct. 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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As for why the market was ultimately disinterested in investing, Brown pointed to larger industry dynamics.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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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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One of its cofounders, Vanderbilt psychiatrist David Barton, felt the hospitals could be institutionally apathetic toward terminally ill patients.—
Laura L. Davis,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Nov. 2025
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Yeah, like how to strike that very fine line of learning how to be happy for a short time on Earth, but not being apathetic about activism.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Unresponsive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unresponsive. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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