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Noun
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Most prominent has been the hot competition to bring a hotel to the urban center, which led the city to choose two developers building separate projects after years of market indifference.—
Laura Kinsler,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 July 2025 -
The quiet majority, by remaining quiet, gets to enjoy relative prosperity and the relative indifference of the state.—
MICHAEL KIMMAGE,
Foreign Affairs,
16 July 2025
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Whatever the reason, Maxwell’s strength and the shark’s apparent unconcern put one of Maxwell’s friends in danger.—
Donald Millus,
Outdoor Life,
3 July 2025
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But the other pole, blithe unconcern, carries its own dangers.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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In its breadth and aloofness, Death to Order feels like a distant cousin of Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Johan Grimonprez’s cavorting 1997 documentary about airliner hijackings.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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In short, any time the Obama administration has seemed to embrace a policy of regime change as heartily as the first-term Bush administration did, China has stopped supporting multilateral responses to regional and civil conflicts and pulled back to its earlier aloofness.—
Thomas J. Christensen,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Sep. 2015
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“Woodenness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woodenness. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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