apathy
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As a team, we believed that inspiration erodes apathy and yields empathy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Others came up with captions including "Don't Look Up," a reference to the 2021 film starring Leonardo Di Caprio parodying societal apathy to the climate crisis.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
The musician has been receiving medication and treatment; but says the condition also comes with episodes of anxiety, depression, and apathy.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The public’s drift from space, he argued, wasn’t the apathy of a tired people but the disappointment of a hopeful one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Fear and apathy had become the new norm in what had once been a close-knit community.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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But European civilization, as Shirer's people embody it, has become a complex of nostalgias, apathies, pleasant habits.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The next news I had of him was in his essay, "Ordered South," concerning the emotions, apathies, and pleasures, on that then fairy coast, of a young man who thinks that his days are numbered.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently by baffled blows, by sudden, unseasonable apathies, by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heyday of friendship and thought.
From Essays — First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
What the great Luther called, without describing them, his 'tribulations'—those dreadful doubts and apathies which at times menace and darken the radiant fabric of faith, and fill the soul with nameless horrors.
From Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
And yet again they seem to use words rightly when they call those joys and wishes and cautions not apathies but good conditions of the mind.
From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto
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