negligent
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"Negligent investigation and training by the security staff at Grandmaster Recorders led to this unfortunate arrest," the statement reads.
From Fox News • Jan. 18, 2022
She's Negligent for not appealing an Arbitration decision?
From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2016
Negligent they may have been, but few subjected their families to such obvious risk as Oscar Wilde had.
From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2016
Negligent boards may find themselves facing questions from angry shareholders and customers after a cyber breach.
From Time • Oct. 21, 2014
Negligent and careless in his domestic concerns, he never permitted a single ray of generosity to burst forth to animate the general frost of his character.
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne
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The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 7
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