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Recent Examples of unresponsive
Officers discovered a man and a woman wounded and unresponsive in front of a home.
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Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2025
The man had been shot in the torso and was unresponsive.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
Saturday after the department received a call about an unresponsive woman.
—Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2025
Yasmin Vitalis, 25, was found unresponsive on a living room floor in Fuquay-Varina.
—Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 20 Mar. 2025
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Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2025
The man had been shot in the torso and was unresponsive.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
Saturday after the department received a call about an unresponsive woman.
—Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2025
Yasmin Vitalis, 25, was found unresponsive on a living room floor in Fuquay-Varina.
—Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unresponsive
Adjective
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The off-white walls of this bygone home for the Warriors remain listless and barren.—
Daniel Brown,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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Newcastle United were listless during their 3-1 defeat at Fulham on September 21 — and nobody appeared more out of sorts than Alexander Isak.—
Chris Waugh,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Most students arrive uninterested and even annoyed at having to take a class outside their major.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Mar. 2025
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Of course, some people may be uninterested in engagement and want only to promote a single viewpoint.—
Rodger Dean Duncan,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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However, the Knicks’ lackadaisical defense to start the game bit them in the end, as the Spurs’ Sandro Mamukelashvili hit more 3s than vowels in his last name.—
James L. Edwards III,
The Athletic,
20 Mar. 2025
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As the netminder made his lackadaisical way back into into his crease, Kastelic fired it toward the net.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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To be sure, securing trademarks is a relatively perfunctory bit of legal housekeeping and doesn’t necessarily indicate grander plans are underway.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
22 Dec. 2024
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The will-they-won’t-they pairings that should light up these characters feel similarly perfunctory.—
Angie Han,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire, an underground crime lord and boxer in A Thousand Blows, a neo-Nazi play-acting at being a father in This Is England, a coolly unemotional dystopian leader in Bodies.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
22 Mar. 2025
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Wall Street also brings improved pricing precision — more and better information analyzed by unemotional investment professionals.—
Joshua Stein,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In the beginning of the series, Ava came off as incompetent and uncaring, constantly causing problems for the Abbott Elementary teachers who liked to do things by the book.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
27 Mar. 2025
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But first, he’s got to reckon with his selfish, spoiled, uncaring nature or he may be doomed to llama life forever.—
Kara Nesvig,
Parents,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Mbappe’s absences from the October and November international get-togethers and his disinterested attitude during the September break had prompted fears in France that the darling of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup campaigns had fallen out of love with the national team.—
Tom Williams,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
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Fortunately, in Delaware, where the company is incorporated, a tender offer requires at least 50% of disinterested outstanding shareholders to approve the transaction.—
Kenneth Squire,
CNBC,
1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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These kinds of policies cultivate students who rely on their schools to shield them from the natural consequences of their poor choices, and enable apathetic, unmotivated students to remain apathetic and unmotivated.—
Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
27 Feb. 2025
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And because plenty of teens are apathetic about school, many parents and teachers are willing to give those kids a pass.—
Jenny Anderson,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Unresponsive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unresponsive. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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