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careless

[kair-lis] / ˈkɛər lɪs /




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A careless sentence from a careful man isn’t heard as careless.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

The OpenAI agents are built for different purposes, but an underappreciated factor in their going hacker mode is that the company’s own staffers were negligent and careless in monitoring their own experiments.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

Beneficiary-designation mistakes are among the most common and costly errors in estate planning, and they happen to careful planners just as often as careless ones.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Tiger Woods pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges of careless and reckless driving stemming from a rollover car crash in Florida in March and had his driver's license suspended for five years.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Many of the reporters were careless about the facts, to the point that she could barely recognize herself in their articles.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield


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