uninvolved

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Recent Examples of uninvolved 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 If the health of an uninvolved person or people is affected, perpetrators must receive prison time ranging from five to fifteen years, up from at least two years previously. Sophie Tanno, CNN, 27 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for uninvolved 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninvolved
Adjective
  • Last month, word had leaked that Golden State was apparently uninterested in trading for Butler's services.
    Alex Kirschenbaum, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Clearly uninterested in retiring, Goudie said that news consumers need his brand of reporting.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Steve Mariucci and the coaching staff didn’t seem to know what to make of Rice, who had become more temperamental and withdrawn.
    Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The expressions on these youthful figures are intent and heartfelt: obedient, frightened, absorbed, wary, withdrawn, cruel, proud, sly, or shy.
    Michael Bracewell, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Perhaps there was no other way to authentically present artists who were so disinterested in genuflecting to corporate machinery.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Their smiles appeared forced, with Harris folding her arms defensively and Biden displaying a disinterested demeanor.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • And university leaders fearing government investigations, funding cuts, or punitive endowment taxes crack down on campus protest, remove or demote outspoken professors, and remain silent in the face of growing authoritarianism.
    STEVEN LEVITSKY, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The story ends up focusing not on the man who could not remain silent, but on a man who held his tongue.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • For more than 50 years, Larry, who died in 2023, remained steadfastly indifferent to journalistic convention.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 25 Jan. 2025
  • That follows Butler’s previous seven-game unpaid team suspension that ended three games ago, with three largely indifferent efforts during those outings.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The story centers on Michael (Abbott), a reclusive farmer living with his ailing father Ray (Colm Meaney), whose ongoing conflict with rival farmer Gary (Paul Ready) and his unpredictable son Jack (Keoghan) escalates into a series of increasingly violent confrontations.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Feb. 2025
  • This normally reclusive species of spider is found across Europe in dark and damp habitats.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • That apathetic dynamic only became more pronounced in the days to come.
    Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2025
  • White leveraged that fame, fortuitously concentrated among a large swath of young, politically apathetic males, to support Donald Trump’s 2024 election triumph.
    Matt Craig, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • After years working abroad in Spain, a taciturn young man returns to his village in rural Bulgaria to clean out his late father’s flat.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The arrival of Pietro (Giuseppe De Domenico), a taciturn Sicilian soldier who hides out in town after deserting the army, disrupts the dynamics of the local teacher’s family, changing them forever.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024

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“Uninvolved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninvolved. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.

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