negligence
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Negligence amounts to careless mistakes or breaches of duty.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2022
Negligence claims in tort law generally allow consumers to sue for negligence caused by carelessness, which doesn’t always involve a violation of the law or knowingly entrusting someone unfit to handle the product.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2022
Negligence and lack of safety norms often contribute to such accidents in India.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2022
Negligence is judged on a spectrum, the most extreme form being recklessness, although one still has responsibility for reasonable attention or "duty of care."
From Salon • Aug. 14, 2021
There is, in short, both at Versailles and Paris, a prodigious Mixture of Magnificence and Negligence, with every kind of Elegance except that of Cleanliness, and what we call Tidyness.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.
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