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
Still, it’s not unlikely that many of the damn kids who won’t get off my lawn know nothing of the insouciant grace of Astaire and Rogers, or the metafictional antics of Hope and Crosby.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023
For a moment, his insouciant swagger fails him.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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