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negligent

[neg-li-juhnt] / ˈnɛg lɪ dʒənt /


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A few minutes later the Russian was defaulted, as he had to be, under rules that bar a player from "hitting a ball dangerously or recklessly, or with negligent disregard of the consequences."

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

That same month, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google's YouTube negligent in the case of a 20-year-old woman who said she became hooked on social media as a child, awarding her $6 million.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Xcel has said its equipment was likely involved in igniting the blaze, but the utility disputes that it was negligent in maintaining and operating its infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The OpenAI agents are built for different purposes, but an underappreciated factor in their going hacker mode is that the company’s own staffers were negligent and careless in monitoring their own experiments.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

It’s up to the jury to decide if Reggie should’ve known that, if it was criminally negligent to not be aware of that.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel


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