apathy

Example Sentences

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The simplicity of his execution underlines that a nightmare future doesn’t need to much to come to fruition, just a couple of clipboards and mass apathy.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Compounding this painful apathy is the fact that state officials were made aware of the burial ground by at least the 1970s.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

With so much at stake in this moment in time, that reluctance looks more like apathy.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

But even as she slumps and stretches across the page, nothing, it seems, can cure her apathy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

My mother, sensing my apathy toward reading, had bought me the Mitch Albom book Fab Five.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore