disengaged
adjective
dis·en·gaged
ˌdis-in-ˈgājd 
1
: not mentally or emotionally involved or engaged
disengaged employees/students
2
: detached sense 2
a disengaged observer
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If managers are burned out and disengaged, everything downstream suffers.
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Christine Muldoon, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
And interminably long campaign cycles — where media coverage fixates on the horse race and almost never engages with policy — leave voters both disengaged and underinformed.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 May 2026
The best-case scenario for Democrats may instead be for Republicans to stay home in November, and Cornyn looks like the candidate who is more likely to leave them disengaged.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 20 May 2026
The harder test is what Mamdani’s engagement looks like for young people with more reasons to stay disengaged than show up.
—Sonia Huq, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
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Christine Muldoon, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
And interminably long campaign cycles — where media coverage fixates on the horse race and almost never engages with policy — leave voters both disengaged and underinformed.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 May 2026
The best-case scenario for Democrats may instead be for Republicans to stay home in November, and Cornyn looks like the candidate who is more likely to leave them disengaged.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 20 May 2026
The harder test is what Mamdani’s engagement looks like for young people with more reasons to stay disengaged than show up.
—Sonia Huq, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
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“Disengaged.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disengaged. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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