neglect
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He said the trust "being compelled to admit gross neglect" was the hardest thing.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
A relatively low amount of credit-card debt can be easy to neglect — and I’ve definitely done it myself.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
At Rome's occupied Morgagni high school, where students have barricaded entrances with desks, protesters pointed to the crumbling infrastructure as evidence of neglect.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Acton, a pediatrician and former health director under Ohio’s current Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, has spoken openly during her campaign about facing abuse and neglect as a child, while in her mother’s custody.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
So we came down this road; when we meet other ways—not always were we sure that they were roads at all, for they be neglect and light snow have fallen—the horses know and they only.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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The novel is so doctrinaire about its pessimism that it mostly neglects the characters’ music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
To opponents of the forthcoming regulation, including many still inside the Social Security Administration, Warshawsky and Vought’s conception of the modern economy neglects the fact that workers like Tincher grew up in a different world.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025
The recent sharp selloff in Zions Bancorp’s stock already more than captures any credit risk associated with loan losses, but it neglects the overall quality of the bank’s financials, an analyst said Thursday.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2025
For example, it neglects to show the good side of social media alongside its dangers, he says, and some details – including the secret emoji codes one character claims children use – ring false.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2025
The definition neglects to mention the maps, the ones that delineate the return trip to normal or the site of the sunken treasure.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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He likens his college, among the smallest in America, to “the Little Engine That Could, carrying the freight of our neglected culture in its few little cars.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The powers held by the bad version of Ursula seem to grow the more that Bela feels neglected by real-life Ursula, who works constantly and often gets home late.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
Gynecological pain is so often neglected, and it’s a space where even small adjustments can represent an improvement.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
They could also be shown which areas have been neglected - places with broken streetlights, little funding and missing public services.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
Meg looked worn and nervous, the babies absorbed every minute of her time, the house was neglected, and Kitty, the cook, who took life ‘aisy’, kept him on short commons.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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I spent fruitless hours testing my employer’s patience, neglecting my more immediate work while dredging up zero-retweet Twitter posts from the early 2010s.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
If politicians stopped neglecting cities, then urban India could eventually stop being a byword for squalor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
One in three even admitted to accidentally breaking the law by neglecting important responsibilities, like missing jury duty.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
“What if you considered this other perspective?” most of them ask, neglecting to realize that most people won’t be inclined to think harder unless they’re presented with more than a suggestion.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
“So you think I’m neglecting you and Macy?”
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
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