apathy
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Others came up with captions including "Don't Look Up," a reference to the 2021 film starring Leonardo Di Caprio parodying societal apathy to the climate crisis.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
It’d make clearer the cost of voter apathy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Besides large class sizes and underfunding, I think public educators are largely battling apathy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
The police station head Rajiv Kumar has since been suspended for "negligence, apathy, and insensitivity", Begusarai police said.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
I projected apathy about her feelings, but I wanted nothing more than to make her proud.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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But European civilization, as Shirer's people embody it, has become a complex of nostalgias, apathies, pleasant habits.
From Time Magazine Archive
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After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently by baffled blows, by sudden, unseasonable apathies, by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heyday of friendship and thought.
From Essays — First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
She learned more of Mrs. Grubb with every interview, and she knew that her enthusiasms were as discouraging as her apathies.
From Marm Lisa by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
After interviews have been compassed with long foresight, we must be tormented presently by baffled blows, by sudden, unseasonable apathies, by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heyday of friendship and thought.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edna Henry Lee Turpin
And yet again they seem to use words rightly when they call those joys and wishes and cautions not apathies but good conditions of the mind.
From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto
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