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nonchalant

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Dimon, often more willing than most to focus on the dour side, said he was concerned about how investors appeared nonchalant about risks in credit, although he acknowledged consumer defaults looked normal so far.

However, with the nonchalant dance-funk of “Freedom! ’90” — a pedestal-detonating manifesto on which he announces “I don’t belong to you/And you don’t belong to me” — Michael takes pleasure in ripping up his playbook.

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L.A.’s nonchalant highhandedness can gall today as it did 101 years ago when it precipitated what secessionists hailed as the “day of deliverance” from the “imperial county.”

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At his most nonchalant, he’s doing an Oliver impression.

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I wasn’t sure what scared me more, the thought of the tourists being attacked, or the way they were all so nonchalant in the face of danger creeping right up to them.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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