indifferent
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Anyone who chooses to keep watching this game is choosing to support it and is choosing to be indifferent to its terrible cost on the young men playing.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Nor can Antigone, whose all-consuming identification with her cause renders her indifferent to other obligations, be adopted as a user-friendly hero.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu has paid the price for an indifferent showing in South Africa's defeat by New Zealand, with the fly-half dropping to the bench for Saturday's rematch in Cape Town.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
People routinely tried to sell us different kinds of softshell turtles and other species that were highly restricted, assuming we fishmongers were as indifferent as they were to the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
They made indifferent sentinels, for in many places their ranks had been broken by the rhubarb plant, and they lay with crumpled heads and listless stems, making a pathway for the rabbits.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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