unresponsive

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Recent Examples of unresponsive Officers also identified Smith as the person seen on surveillance video removing an unresponsive Wilson from the car, according to the affidavits. Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 11 Mar. 2025 Honolulu Ocean Safety responded to a 9-1-1 call at 11:33 a.m. for an unresponsive 63-year-old male – whose identity was not released – at Kailua Beach. Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2025 When successfully performing an Offset Attack with the Insect Glaive's Descending Slash under certain conditions, the hunter freezes and becomes unresponsive to any controls. Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025 Mangione had been unresponsive to his friend’s texts but eventually got in touch on July 9, law enforcement confirms, sending a detailed message that nobody understood him and life had become difficult. Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unresponsive
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Adjective
  • Newcastle United were listless during their 3-1 defeat at Fulham on September 21 — and nobody appeared more out of sorts than Alexander Isak.
    Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • On disk, the Bostonians play with maximum effervescence, but in the Adagio of the Concerto in G Cho’s attempt at otherworldly lyricism turns listless.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • According to Crombie, Bong was uninterested in the logic of gravity and who was flying the ship.
    Abigail Lee, Variety, 14 Mar. 2025
  • These dissenters, who have been the scant liberal signs of life, are clearly uninterested in Carville’s play-dead strategy.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • As the netminder made his lackadaisical way back into into his crease, Kastelic fired it toward the net.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Moore really sells the arc from her disappointment in Kaffee’s lackadaisical approach to the case at the film’s start to nearly fangirling over his prowess as a lawyer by the end. 7.
    Eddie Mouradian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • So starts a fascinating look at the process of trying out for the show, which is centered on a harrowing five-minute audition in front of mostly unemotional producers.
    Marco della Cava, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Momeni appeared unemotional as the verdict was read, as did his lead attorney, who joined the hearing via Zoom, the station reported.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • 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
  • At sentencing the next day we are met with the scarred, uncaring face of Benjamin Pointdexter as Matt takes the stand.
    Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • And that’s because what a disinterested lawyer would do is bring in that objectivity.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
  • To evaluate this offer, Aspen’s board formed a special committee of three independent and disinterested directors.
    Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • And because plenty of teens are apathetic about school, many parents and teachers are willing to give those kids a pass.
    Jenny Anderson, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2025

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“Unresponsive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unresponsive. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.

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