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Noun
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The sequence culminates with Elphaba’s hand slap, a sharp, defiant gesture against the crowd’s indifference.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
14 Feb. 2025 -
In 2023, Haenel announced her retirement from cinema, citing the complacency and indifference of the French industry to the #MeToo movement as the reason.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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American apathy has many root causes — that’s another thing on our to-do list — but love of an unhinged strongman isn’t one of them.—
Sabrina Haake,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2025
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That may explain why political apathy raises a red flag for Carton in particular.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
17 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs then assumed the initiative by denying Peru's disinterestedness, charging Peru with seeking to injure Chilean interests by her nitrate measures, and with keeping secret the treaty of alliance between Peru and Bolivia.—
Edwin M. Borchard,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Oct. 2011
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The first had to do with the principle of disinterestedness, which called for partisan politics to be kept out of scholarship and the classroom.—
Louis Menand,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2021
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“Perfunctoriness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perfunctoriness. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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