indifference
Example Sentences
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But the ICE raids and the council’s indifference to residents angered Becerra, who looks every bit the profe with a perfectly shaved head and tortoise shell glasses.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Philosopher Timothy McGrew then observes that Mr. Dawkins “has famously said that ‘the universe has at bottom just those properties one would expect if there were no design, no purpose, only blind pitiless indifference.’
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Wide-eyed consumption of all the horrors we encounter on an hourly basis may look like attention, but it isn’t so different from indifference.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
An investigation into an "alleged incident of inappropriate behaviour by one of the senior leaders" subsequently found "a culture of indifference towards safeguarding" at the church.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
I had a notion that if we acknowledged our brokenness, we could no longer take pride in mass incarceration, in executing people, in our deliberate indifference to the most vulnerable.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Vocabulary lists containing indifference
A Raisin in the Sun
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"The Perils of Indifference," Vocabulary from the speech
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Hamilton
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