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Super-sized Opportunities Workplace crises can be proactively prevented (or eventually explained) by tackling incentives, incompetence and indifference with stewardship, capability and care.—
Noah Barsky,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025 -
Causing a Stink After asking the dog's owner, Rick, to address the issue, the original poster (OP) was met with indifference.—
Darlin Tillery,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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The private and personalized nature of AI use makes its mental health impact difficult to track, but the evidence of potential harms is mounting, from professional apathy to attachments to new forms of delusion.—
Parmy Olson,
Mercury News,
12 July 2025
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Forcing them into the family business can breed resentment or apathy—neither of which serves your company or your family.—
Anatoly Iofe,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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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 20 Jul. 2025.
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