neglecting

Example Sentences

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It laid much of the blame, once again, on Roark, saying it was focused on building out a restaurant platform that it plans to take public and neglecting Driven.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

If you’ve been neglecting paying down this bill, lenders might be hesitant to offer you a loan or more likely to charge you a higher interest rate.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026

If that's agreed, detectives will then look for evidence that the incident in question saw the suspect "wilfully" neglecting to perform their duty or wilfully misconducting themselves in some other way.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

"The economy has been destroyed," he said, accusing the ousted government of neglecting ordinary citizens.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

Each of these partial theories describes and predicts a certain limited class of observations, neglecting the effects of other quantities, or representing them by simple sets of numbers.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking