wantonly
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The plot is simultaneously ingenious, preposterous and, in its ultimate phantasmagorical effect, not unlike Mr. Holland’s account of the reality Mr. Boyne so wantonly subverts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Anthropic’s worries over Claude’s alleged ability to feel distress aren’t really about Claude; they’re about our all-too-human unease over the possibility that we’re wantonly using something that doesn’t want to be used.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025
And it would benefit us, too, to stop wantonly crushing cetaceans with our boats.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024
"Then, with its stock price crumbling under the weight of its own mismanagement, circled the wagons to protect its new leaders and wantonly accused" Mr Lynch of fraud, they wrote.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2024
Worst of all, if you wantonly divide by zero, you can destroy the entire foundation of logic and mathematics.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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