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neglect

[ni-glekt] / nɪˈglɛkt /






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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

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

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

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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