disinterested
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But federal support was provided on the firm principle that distribution was to be determined by disinterested experts qualified to evaluate the merits of scientific and technological proposals.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
Yass is no disinterested party — according to Forbes, he’s worth $67.4 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
The disinterested universe that serves as backdrop to Mr. Diaz’s world imposes no small amount of irony on Magellan’s campaign to convert the natives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Headstrong, queer and disinterested in Victorian pieties, she escaped her smothering Indianapolis family and headed to Chicago, where she hustled work as a bookseller and book reviewer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
Except for this moment, Smith, and Hickock too, affected a courtroom attitude that was simultaneously uninterested and disinterested; they chewed gum and tapped their feet with languid impatience as the state summoned its first witness.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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The Bluest Eye
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Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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