ignorance
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Paxton cannot claim ignorance of the law because he enforces it, said Joshua Blank, research director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
It is alarming that we live in a moment of widespread ignorance that CPS caseworkers, like all fallible government officials, are bound by the Constitution.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Speaking to the inquiry, Rowland's cousin Dr Andrea Hughes said there had been more than five decades of "ignorance, poor leadership, parochialism and arrogance" in relation to the investigation.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
Later, he took a scolding tone when he insisted — yet again — that the negotiations would soon end the war, “subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
Montaigne had already asked, ‘How many things are there which we call miraculous or contrary to Nature? All men and nations do that according to the measure of their ignorance.’
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing ignorance
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Graduation Gems, 2016
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