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Recent Examples of unresponsive
At some point, the younger man struck the older man with a closed fist to the face causing the older man to fall to the ground and become unresponsive, police said.
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Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 9 Nov. 2024
Officers arrived to find the driver unresponsive on the ground.
—Jason Green, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
Prince was 57 when he was found alone and unresponsive in an elevator at his Paisley Park studio compound.
—Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 28 Nov. 2024
Arriving officers located an unresponsive man, later identified as 39-year-old Joshua Ortega, suffering from a gunshot wound.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 24 Nov. 2024
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Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 9 Nov. 2024
Officers arrived to find the driver unresponsive on the ground.
—Jason Green, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
Prince was 57 when he was found alone and unresponsive in an elevator at his Paisley Park studio compound.
—Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 28 Nov. 2024
Arriving officers located an unresponsive man, later identified as 39-year-old Joshua Ortega, suffering from a gunshot wound.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 24 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unresponsive
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By the time the prosecution presented another version of the Vasquez video, broken into fourteen hundred and sixty-five frames, on PowerPoint slides, which show Penny and Neely’s struggle even more clearly, the jurors had begun to resemble listless schoolchildren.Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Looking listless from the opening, the Sharks allowed five goals in the first period and never recovered in an unsightly 8-1 loss to the Lightning at Amalie Arena.Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2024
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Up until that point, Bob is still stuck recording traditional folk songs that don’t sell for a label uninterested in his original material.David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
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If Trump proceeds with bilateral negotiations with Nairobi, either building on the Biden administration’s progress or reviving the talks from his first term, it will be viewed as a signal that Washington is uninterested in striking trade deals with regional blocs.Ken Opalo, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2024
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Ryan Williams was lackadaisical, and Milroe threw it right in the view of the defense.Kennington Smith III, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
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There seemed to be a lackadaisical effort, which allowed for the Oklahoma defender to catch the pass unaffected.Kennington Smith III, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 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
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Background questions put to refugees were perfunctory.Max Abrahms, Foreign Affairs, 22 Mar. 2017
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Schmidt’s unemotional and seemingly effortless style of play did not sit well with the fans.John Perrotto, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Limit your responses to concrete, unemotional facts while maintaining a professional, neutral attitude.Veronica Cristino, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2024
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And wearing a smile while delivering bad news, such as budget cuts or layoffs, makes a leader appear uncaring and out of touch.Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D., Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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The risk, of course, is that the North Koreans will learn what those Russian marines learned recently: that their commanders are cruel, ignorant or both—and that following stupid orders from uncaring officers is bad for your health.David Axe, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Gorka was forced out of his role as an advisor during Trump’s first presidency after John Kelly, Trump’s chief of staff, became disinterested in keeping him, administration officials told the New York Times.Ty Roush, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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This was the Parisian way to do the Olympic opening ceremonies, equal parts proud and disinterested.Dana O'Neil, The Athletic, 26 July 2024
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While failing to entice apathetic young voters and generating extraordinary indecision, Uruguay's lackluster electoral campaigns steered clear of the anti-establishment fury that has vaulted populist outsiders to power elsewhere in the world, like in the United States and neighboring Argentina.NAYARA BATSCHKE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 25 Nov. 2024
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Analysts say that the candidates’ lackluster campaigns failed to entice apathetic young people and generated unusual levels of voter indecision.Nayara Batschke, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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“Unresponsive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unresponsive. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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