nonchalance
Example Sentences
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Marty tosses out the bald-faced lie that his mother died in childbirth with the nonchalance of ordering another coffee, before the orbital pull in the room shifts.
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2025
In his later years he paraded his nonchalance: “If you don’t understand it, I’ll just write another one,” he told a reporter of his work.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2025
This is one reason for the Fed’s nonchalance toward housing market risks in the early 2000s.
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
She meets Sorrentino’s demanding direction with a game nonchalance — so much staring at the lens!
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025
They leaned against the trees in the schoolyard, looking like aimless loiterers, except for their eyes, which they fastened on Lula with studied nonchalance, and then cut sideways at each other like assassins.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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