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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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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
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Maresca’s post-match insistence that the Frenchman’s struggles are not down to a lack of effort felt as feeble and unconvincing as the sum of his contribution over 45 listless first-half minutes.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 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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It’s been striking to watch Vancouver compete over the past week and to contrast it with some of the lackadaisical efforts that characterized so much of this campaign back in the fall.—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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The Super Bowl champion, who is more known for his lackadaisical style than being a stuffy analytical figure, was in a white button-down shirt in between Ryan Clark and Marcus Spears.—
Ryan Gaydos,
Fox News,
10 Sep. 2024
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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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
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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
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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But also appreciate this is a time of year when there are ample disinterested opponents.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2025
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The Heat scored a season-high 68 points in the paint against a Washington defense that seemed disinterested at times.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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There are corners of the fan base who entered apathetic about the whole thing.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
1 Apr. 2025
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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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“Unresponsive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unresponsive. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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