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
Haynes, coupled with a fearless Julianne Moore, took down ’80s AIDS-era apathy and vapid Valley lifestyles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
The police station head Rajiv Kumar has since been suspended for "negligence, apathy, and insensitivity", Begusarai police said.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Reports cite a range of complicated factors for the restraint, from apathy to technology-induced incapacity.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
No wonder there was such apathy in the factory.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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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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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.
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
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
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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