neglect
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The measure would raise an estimated $345 million annually, which the union representing city firefighters says is needed to correct decades of neglect that has left the department understaffed and under-resourced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
It resulted in Dame Esther setting up Childline, a national telephone helpline for children suffering abuse or neglect.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
“The system is operating in this state of malign neglect and carelessness that has a real impact on people’s financial lives,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
But when universities directly pay athletes to play, those students have an incentive to dedicate time and energy to their sports and neglect their studies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
There was nothing rude about this seeming neglect.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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His Holiness also neglects St. Augustine’s definition in “The City of God” that peace is “the tranquility of order,” not just the absence of war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
To opponents of the forthcoming regulation, including many still inside the Social Security Administration, Warshawsky and Vought’s conception of the modern economy neglects the fact that workers like Tincher grew up in a different world.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025
The recent sharp selloff in Zions Bancorp’s stock already more than captures any credit risk associated with loan losses, but it neglects the overall quality of the bank’s financials, an analyst said Thursday.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2025
Eventually, Dyer’s aimlessness gets us somewhere — and, in the most English way, we find the book’s emotional destination in what he neglects to proclaim outright.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
If one neglects gravitational effects, as Einstein and Poincare did in 1905, one has what is called the special theory of relativity.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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It is puzzling to me why Maupassant’s elder and mentor, Gustave Flaubert, is the object of so much cultish admiration while the protégé is comparatively neglected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
She’s running as a candidate with working-class roots, focused on the farmers and rural communities she argues both political parties have neglected.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
Successive governments neglected Israel's geographic periphery, focusing overwhelmingly on security issues, he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
As a longtime renter herself, Raj has experience with being a neglected tenant.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
She would complain about her dusty rafters, her neglected heirlooms, the leaky roof, anything and everything.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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I spent fruitless hours testing my employer’s patience, neglecting my more immediate work while dredging up zero-retweet Twitter posts from the early 2010s.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
No one is worth taking on debt or neglecting long-term financial goals for.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Europeans, who have warned the rest of the world for decades about climate change while neglecting to install air-conditioning in much of the Continent, baked all summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
It accused the report of "spreading misinformation" and "neglecting to mention the threat of terrorist attacks".
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Tycho also quarrelled with some of his tenants on the mainland and got into trouble with the ruling Council for neglecting the maintenance of a chapel that formed part of his estates.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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