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disregard

[dis-ri-gahrd] / ˌdɪs rɪˈgɑrd /




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"You can not continue to engage with someone who is so blatant in her disregard and disdain for a large section of this community," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

But Cruise’s story is also an ironic reflection of “Digger”: an undeniably ambitious project whose assuredness belies a stubborn disregard for everyone but itself.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

“Respondent’s behavior, although nonconsensual, did not exhibit a deliberate disregard for the dignity and autonomy of Complainant but was instead an error in judgment,” Waguespack wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The company responded with a statement calling her suit “especially sad and distressing in its callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

At first Ben was appalled by the lack of respect for the man and by the man’s ability to disregard the stockpiled vitriol stacked on him by his students.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

The Seneca Nation is calling on President Donald Trump to reverse his decision to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,” arguing that the move disregards centuries of Indigenous history and the United States’ treaty obligations.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

Conmebol, the South American confederation, said on Thursday it would not support "any action or procedure that disregards" Fifa's mechanisms before the presidential election.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

As Mr. McGurn observes, it’s ironic that Pope Leo, previously an Augustinian friar, disregards the seminal work on just-war philosophy by his order’s namesake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

SSI provides very modest benefits because its asset limits and income disregards have not been updated in decades.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 10, 2026

There’s a dirt road crossing it, but he disregards this and follows the butterflies, red and white and black in color, with an hourglass pattern, something he’s never seen before.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

But the country’s leaders have never been disregarded.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026

“If contracts could be disregarded, market principles ignored, assets taken over and operators forced out at any time, who would have the confidence to invest and seek cooperation?” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

However, whilst Vrticka agrees that attachment styles shouldn't be seen as either good or bad, he stresses they "come with certain risks and difficulties", which he says shouldn't be disregarded.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

She said that an expert for the prosecution conceded that point and that the data from Grossman’s Mercedes had anomalies and should be disregarded.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

There was a time when my presence only confused people; I used to be just a regular weirdo, the kind of unfathomable entity that was easily disregarded, easily discarded.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

On Friday, Kabila accused President Félix Tshisekedi's government of disregarding proposals he had put forward last year, including some aimed at ending the conflict in eastern DR Congo.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

But when when one looks at his record disregarding those two factors, he measures up very well against several HOF pitchers during his long time in the game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

He has accomplished this by completely disregarding what has become one of the defining trends of modern baseball.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The changes also help to assuage potential anxiety operators might have felt about disregarding state and local laws and the lawsuits that result from that disregard for the law.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

They traveled the length of the island with an air of disregarding it and being set on other business; they were less a progress than a momentous rise and fall or the whole ocean.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding


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