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as in neglectfulness
failure to take the care that a cautious person usually takes
exhibiting his usual negligence, he failed to set the emergency brake, and the car rolled down the steep hill and crashed into the telephone pole
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as in neglect
the nonperformance of an assigned or expected action
the factory's owners are being charged with criminal negligence for the fire that killed a dozen workers
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Recent Examples of negligence
The lawsuit also accuses the State Department and the FBI of negligence.
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Deena Zaru, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2024
Those roasted include the suburban fixation on uniformity, the capriciousness of the media and the negligence and all-around laziness of law enforcement.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Oct. 2024
Rogers generally denied a request for dismissal of negligence claims, but narrowed the scope of allegations that will proceed.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
The specific causes of action being cited in the complaint against all defendants are negligence as well as negligent hiring, training, and retention.
—David Bixenspan, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
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Deena Zaru, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2024
Those roasted include the suburban fixation on uniformity, the capriciousness of the media and the negligence and all-around laziness of law enforcement.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Oct. 2024
Rogers generally denied a request for dismissal of negligence claims, but narrowed the scope of allegations that will proceed.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
The specific causes of action being cited in the complaint against all defendants are negligence as well as negligent hiring, training, and retention.
—David Bixenspan, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
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On an international level, too..., one country’s climate response can easily leave another country impoverished, either through neglect, foolishness or outright malevolence.Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024
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Briefly, this index adds up all the adverse events – including forms of neglect, abuse or other household dysfunction – an individual experienced during childhood into a single cumulative score.Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
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The other factor is the failure of the Biden administration to put an end to the Israeli wars that caused the deaths of more than 43,000 Palestinians by continuing supplies of weapons.Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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The failures of the paternalistic War on Poverty led to more punitive forms of disciplining Black men.Ben Zdencanovic, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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But as ProPublica reported this year, court oversight of these officials is threadbare.Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 8 Nov. 2024
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In 2022, the Electoral Count Reform Act, passed with bipartisan support, strengthened the original act by creating a system of judicial oversight, in which courts have the final say on the lawful counting of votes and determination of a slate of electors.Jenna Bednar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
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The default response protocol being used for most of the major generative AI apps such as ChatGPT, GPT-4o, o1, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama, and others is customarily going to be to word responses with clues or hints about certainty and uncertainty.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Since the breaches, Snowflake has updated its systems to require multifactor authentication to be turned on by default.Matt Burgess, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Negligence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negligence. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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