neglect
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“A lot of our members feel the neglect … probably the biggest thing is sanitation fears, especially public health crises.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Those schools aren’t falling apart by accident or even by intentional neglect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 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
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
The widespread neglect of the problem of chemical mutagens is perhaps due to the fact that those first discovered were of scientific interest only.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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He neglects to mention that, before the war, the cotton states marketed more than four million bales a year worldwide, with much of the trade passing through New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 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
If one neglects gravitational effects, as Einstein and Poincare did in 1905, one has what is called the special theory of relativity.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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By considering a previously neglected branch of the theory, they uncovered a substantially different picture of how the Universe might have evolved.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
"We were let down. We were lied to. Our children were neglected," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
To Mr. Taylor, though, these desirable features leave trails and contradictions that Tolkien neglected to explain.
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
But the penguin, though thus neglected for the moment, was by no means idle.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
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By neglecting to make individual determinations, the judge wrote, the city “failed to do its due diligence, making its actions arbitrary and capricious.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
Britain was pursuing AI acceleration and public trust at once, he said, warning that neglecting either would be problematic.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 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
I got by between paydays by neglecting overdue bills and borrowing money from Robin, so twice a month, when a few hundred dollars went into my account, it was gone within hours.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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