insouciant

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This column had a couple of great calls, to buy Treasurys at the start of the year and to fear tariffs when the market was insouciant about import taxes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

Irvine's outspoken, insouciant character fitted well with the team.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2025

Two years ago, a normally insouciant defense consultant with a high security clearance told me that a briefing he’d recently received on Russia and China’s anti-satellite, or ASAT, programs left him “shaken.”

From Slate • Feb. 15, 2024

Last year it updated their looks, making the group more “inclusive” in the company’s term, slightly changing their garb and endowing them with insouciant grins and smirks.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2023

In this setting, another, more insouciant company had hunkered down.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan