apathy
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Instead, he encountered an apathy that stunned him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Others came up with captions including "Don't Look Up," a reference to the 2021 film starring Leonardo Di Caprio parodying societal apathy to the climate crisis.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
The musician has been receiving medication and treatment; but says the condition also comes with episodes of anxiety, depression, and apathy.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Yet those who work around him say that shouldn’t be confused with apathy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
In the Bronx, the idea of life’s impermanence underlined everything for kids my age—it drove some of us to a paralyzing apathy, stopped us from even thinking too far into the future.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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But European civilization, as Shirer's people embody it, has become a complex of nostalgias, apathies, pleasant habits.
From Time Magazine Archive
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What the great Luther called, without describing them, his 'tribulations'—those dreadful doubts and apathies which at times menace and darken the radiant fabric of faith, and fill the soul with nameless horrors.
From Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
After interviews have been compassed with long foresight, we must be tormented presently by baffled blows, by sudden, unseasonable apathies, by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heyday of friendship and thought.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edna Henry Lee Turpin
The next news I had of him was in his essay, "Ordered South," concerning the emotions, apathies, and pleasures, on that then fairy coast, of a young man who thinks that his days are numbered.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
She learned more of Mrs. Grubb with every interview, and she knew that her enthusiasms were as discouraging as her apathies.
From Marm Lisa by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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