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apathy

[ap-uh-thee] / ˈæp ə θi /


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As a team, we believed that inspiration erodes apathy and yields empathy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Investor apathy toward China stems from weak consumer spending and bank loan growth, and increased US-China trade restrictions.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

The police station head Rajiv Kumar has since been suspended for "negligence, apathy, and insensitivity", Begusarai police said.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

Fashioning your lead actor as a totem to project your thoughts about apathy and loneliness would be a risky move for anyone other than writer-director Amanda Kramer, who’s made a career out of brazen chicness.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

In the Bronx, the idea of life’s impermanence underlined everything for kids my age—it drove some of us to a paralyzing apathy, stopped us from even thinking too far into the future.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

But European civilization, as Shirer's people embody it, has become a complex of nostalgias, apathies, pleasant habits.

From Time Magazine Archive

The next news I had of him was in his essay, "Ordered South," concerning the emotions, apathies, and pleasures, on that then fairy coast, of a young man who thinks that his days are numbered.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang

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

Among the commonest manifestations of insanity are excitements and depressions, apathies and manias, hallucinations, delusions and obsessions, all of which are reproducible under known conditions of internal secretion excess or failure.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.


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