nonchalant
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Heading into the results, investors were a bit more nonchalant about threats to the economy.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 14, 2026
The dandy may have many names, but we know him when we see him—he projects the aristocrat’s “superior air and nonchalant ennui,” Mr. Andersson writes, only a little too much.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
"There's not gonna be a chill, nonchalant bone in my body that day," says Rose.
From BBC • Jun. 23, 2025
While everyone else working the fire seemed nonchalant, I was tentative and terrified.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025
Thomas Jefferson’s version of the story follows a plotline that illustrates the natural and almost nonchalant way that history happens in an ideal Jeffersonian world.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing nonchalant
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Grade 9, List 1
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