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as in uninterested
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as in withdrawn
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Recent Examples of uninvolved
No officers or uninvolved people were injured in the shooting.
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Noe Padilla, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2024
Notably, free play doesn’t mean that adults have to remain uninvolved.
—Amanda Ruggeri, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024
Questions linger as to whether the hostilities will draw in other states from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), including key regional U.S. ally Saudi Arabia, historically partisan to the Palestinian cause — but so far militarily uninvolved in the ongoing Middle East conflict.
—Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2024
What Is Free-Range Parenting? Free-range parenting advocates insist this parenting style isn’t about being permissive or uninvolved.
—Amy Morin, Parents, 30 July 2024
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Noe Padilla, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2024
Notably, free play doesn’t mean that adults have to remain uninvolved.
—Amanda Ruggeri, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024
Questions linger as to whether the hostilities will draw in other states from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), including key regional U.S. ally Saudi Arabia, historically partisan to the Palestinian cause — but so far militarily uninvolved in the ongoing Middle East conflict.
—Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2024
What Is Free-Range Parenting? Free-range parenting advocates insist this parenting style isn’t about being permissive or uninvolved.
—Amy Morin, Parents, 30 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninvolved
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Denmark is uninterested in selling Greenland, and the territory’s largely indigenous population is wary of outside powers—a legacy of the island’s brutal history under Danish rule.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Mar. 2025
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While the Fongs are third-generation owners, their children are doctors and engineers uninterested in taking over the family business.—
Benjy Egel,
Sacramento Bee,
11 Feb. 2025
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Hong’s withdrawn gaze is interrupted by sudden movements, like pans across space and crash zooms into ongoing conversations.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2025
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Solitary, eccentric, shrouded in a mystical melancholy, Joakim fights for his farm and leads a withdrawn life, with only his pets and a neighbor for company; a Slovak immigrant who also lives ostracized, as an outsider.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
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The 5-0 shelling of the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday moved the Rangers to 7-1-3 in January and within 2 points of a wild-card spot and further away from that 19-game run of awful, disinterested play in November and December.—
Arthur Staple,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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It’s used only once, when her aunt speaks the name into a cell phone to a disinterested third party.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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The writer was directed to a secret Disney warehouse where he was confronted with a Baby Yoda robot that was able to respond to him, including seeming disappointed when the writer was silent.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
8 Mar. 2025
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Jun Reina, a former general manager of Capital Public Radio and a central figure in the station’s financial woes, has largely remained silent as questions mounted over a scathing audit’s findings of questionable expenses and financial mismanagement.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacramento Bee,
6 Mar. 2025
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If Hollywood’s answer to Donald Trump’s first months at the White House in 2017 was resistance, the 2025 edition so far appears more muted and a tad indifferent.—
Alex Weprin,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Mar. 2025
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But what if the U.S. is not only unsupportive or neutral or indifferent but hostile?—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
3 Mar. 2025
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It is named after longtime local environmental and snowpack researcher billy barr, a reclusive mountain man who prefers spelling his name using lowercase letters.—
Morgan Tilton,
The Denver Post,
4 Feb. 2025
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The notoriously reclusive singer took to X to signal (albeit lukewarm) support on Wednesday.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
6 Dec. 2024
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The issue extends to Mio, too, whose quips or poorly timed retorts to Zoe’s dialogue don’t really align with her generally apathetic persona.—
Kyle Wilson,
Rolling Stone,
4 Mar. 2025
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Some reported feeling more apathetic rather than angry at Spurs’ past two home games: a 6-3 defeat by Liverpool just before Christmas that should have been even more lop-sided and Sunday’s 2-2 draw with Wolverhampton Wanderers where Spurs conceded an 87th-minute equaliser.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
The Athletic,
2 Jan. 2025
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Valeska’s taciturn son Karl (Tom Wlaschiha) regards him with similar suspicion, even as his mother warms to the outsider.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Feb. 2025
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Watching an octogenarian president heavily implied to be a Democrat struggle to form sentences strikes a nerve, but for the most part, De Niro’s take is too taciturn and quietly dignified to inspire much emotion.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Uninvolved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninvolved. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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