nonchalance

Example Sentences

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But there’s another argument to investors nonchalance: It is that while the news is loud, none of it is significant enough to change the math on interest rates.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

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

Anab Awale, a district councilor in Mitte who is Somali German, said the nonchalance of German officials toward comfort women revisionism was clear evidence that Germany’s own racial inequalities remain unresolved.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2024

In person, she is a particular mix of gravity and nonchalance.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024

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