unresponsive

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Recent Examples of unresponsive He was found unresponsive in the snow around 6 a.m. N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025 Inner Cosmos is a startup reinventing care for depressed patients unresponsive to conventional pharmaceutical therapies. Naveen Rao, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025 According to a news release from the agency, deputies responded 4 p.m. Tuesday to a call about the man, identified as 32-year-old Kenneth Marrero Cardona, who was found unresponsive in the 8800 block of Exchange Drive. Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025 Police: Infant dies after being found unresponsive in bathtub in East Haven An infant was pronounced dead after being left unattended in a bathtub in East Haven on Sunday night. Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unresponsive
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unresponsive
Adjective
  • There are no darker days in a season than the ones that see relegation confirmed and for Southampton, listless for so much of this Premier League campaign, the moment arrived on Sunday.
    Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
  • When intentionally chosen, the right scent can even shift your mood—lifting you out of a listless haze or helping ease a frantic pace.
    Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Confused and clearly uninterested, Benson shut his advances down — but not before Stabler temporarily came to and took a clear side in the brisket conversation.
    Alex Ross, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • My best guess for why HBO is airing it second is that most people hearing the subject will either be uninterested or know the details already, in which case: Why bother?
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • With over 70 beaches—the most of any Greek island—Milos is a destination for those seeking lackadaisical days spent lounging in and out of cerulean waters.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Many said the progressive-sounding program is being pushed by indifferent state leaders and is creating lackadaisical security conditions in already dangerous work environments.
    William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The doc opens with a perfunctory overview of the artist’s early life, touching briefly on his childhood in Chicago and how the church introduced him to and shaped his musical style.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Time after time, your off-brand chocobo will deliver you to a monster's lair for a perfunctory pummeling while your companions spout exposition.
    James Perkins Mastromarino, NPR, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • As the film opens, a matter-of-fact, unemotional voice shares statistics about children living with poverty, parental abuse and alcoholism in the United States, as the numbers flash in simple white text on a black screen.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 30 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Both were crashing bores because of the literally nauseating behavior of fans and the uncaring attitude of the proprietors.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
  • In a world conquered by science, technology, and capitalism, people had grown accustomed to viewing themselves as isolated cogs in a large and uncaring machine.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 18 Nov. 2019
Adjective
  • Until the Suns this season started struggling, losing in Charlotte in January and dropping back-to-back games at Portland in February, looking disconnected and disinterested.
    Doug Haller, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2025
  • If the company were required to get the vote of 50% of disinterested shareholders, Elliott would need to have its position in common stock to vote.
    Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The Vermont Senator, who was in California for an anti-oligarchy rally earlier in the day, encouraged the crowd to fight for the country, warning of the dire consequences the country faces if people remain apathetic.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Rotations and close-outs often appeared apathetic or simply nonexistent.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 11 Apr. 2025

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“Unresponsive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unresponsive. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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