recklessness
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Recklessness means that the person issuing the threat “consciously disregarded a substantial risk that his communications would be viewed as threatening violence.”
From Slate • Jul. 25, 2023
“The reality,” she wrote, “is that recklessness is not grounded in law, but in a Goldilocks judgment: Recklessness is not too much, not too little, but instead ‘just right.’”
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2023
Recklessness is more subjective and so, perhaps, an easier conclusion for the committee to reach and agree upon.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2023
"Recklessness is the standard for actual malice," Norman Eisen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and CNN legal analyst, told Salon.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2023
Recklessness seemed fine; and everything seemed to have gone out of the world—except me and him.
From The Great Miss Driver by Hope, Anthony
Vocabulary lists containing recklessness
"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 1 of the epic poem
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Crime and Punishment
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Vocabulary from Readings 5, Unit 5
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