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obliviousness

[uh-bliv-ee-uhs-nis] / əˈblɪv i əs nɪs /




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Someday this chapter may be viewed as fascinating for its obliviousness and, from a public relations standpoint, its recklessness.

From Salon Apr. 25, 2023

Throughout the book, Guns skewers the obliviousness of the privileged.

From Washington Post Feb. 28, 2023

Rant to those few whose reckless obliviousness will never be curbed by any conditions.

From Seattle Times Jan. 8, 2023

And in one of the film’s slyer jokes, the hip-hop song “White Boy Summer” by their son Chet Hanks is used to personify a certain kind of clueless obliviousness in others.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 28, 2022

Thanks to his obliviousness, he and George had been ruthlessly mauled.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz




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