as in disregard
lack of interest or concern
an alarming indifference toward the well-being of his own children
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Recent Examples of indifference
So little worry for the Miami Heat in this one amid the Washington Wizards’ Super Bowl Sunday indifference, as Erik Spoelstra’s team rolled to a 132-101 victory at Capital One Arena.
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Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2026
Iran’s rulers, like many religious fundamentalists, celebrate indifference to earthly life and pin their sights on posthumous rewards.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
The Pirates’ indifference to him is surely, and somewhat understandably, driving him a bit nuts.
—Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
The quiet is broken only by the swoop of herons and, less poetically, the occasional 737 descending into the nearby airport, which the waterway loops around with indifference.
—Phil Thomas, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2026
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Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2026
Iran’s rulers, like many religious fundamentalists, celebrate indifference to earthly life and pin their sights on posthumous rewards.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
The Pirates’ indifference to him is surely, and somewhat understandably, driving him a bit nuts.
—Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
The quiet is broken only by the swoop of herons and, less poetically, the occasional 737 descending into the nearby airport, which the waterway loops around with indifference.
—Phil Thomas, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indifference
disregard
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To this one can readily add ICE agents’ violations of constitutional restrictions on the use of force, breaches of their own use-of-force policies when confronting protesters, and the unconstitutional disregard of Fourth Amendment warrant restrictions.—
Paul Rosenzweig,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
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Outraged over such disregard for safety, even those who had held uneasy friendships with King cut him off.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Indifference.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indifference. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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