insensitive
Example Sentences
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The AI investment boom is also largely insensitive to borrowing costs, since the money is committed and the expected returns dwarf what a quarter point changes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
But others have called out the insensitive remarks.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Are we meant to be tough but sensitive, tough but insensitive, or sensitive but sexist?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
The filing alleged Flores deceptively edited the recordings to hide his own insensitive remarks and suggested he was motivated by a desire to win a large legal settlement in court.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
It is something like the way Dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Vocabulary lists containing insensitive
Out of My Mind
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