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neglect

[ni-glekt] / nɪˈglɛkt /






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The film tells of the story of how Corless began researching a former institution for unmarried mothers and their children in Tuam, County Galway, and uncovers the hidden history of neglect and loss.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Graffiti has been washed from the Frank Putnam Flint fountain, but it remains a broken-down monument to neglect, as it has for most of the past 60 years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Asked about the Post's reporting, the Kennedy Center declined to comment and referred AFP to a recent statement from spokesperson Roma Daravi blaming "decades of neglect and deferred maintenance by the previous leadership."

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

Sixty years of enforcement history predicts what those documents will show: neglect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

To a certain extent he began to neglect his business.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

His Holiness also neglects St. Augustine’s definition in “The City of God” that peace is “the tranquility of order,” not just the absence of war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 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

The definition neglects to mention the maps, the ones that delineate the return trip to normal or the site of the sunken treasure.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

From Greater Manchester to north London, organisations and volunteers are transforming former industrial land and neglected parks into habitats for wildlife and places for people to enjoy.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Shekhar, who neglected to pack a razor blade and asks to borrow one, is persuaded not to shave after polling his friends, who also intend, at first, to rough it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

On Wednesday, I checked the same sadly neglected area around City Hall that I wrote about in April and found only minimal improvements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Yet as a reference work on a neglected era of American history, “Contested Continent” is unsurpassed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Eventually, the banks found their way to the toy shelf along with all our other neglected toys.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

No one is worth taking on debt or neglecting long-term financial goals for.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

Europeans, who have warned the rest of the world for decades about climate change while neglecting to install air-conditioning in much of the Continent, baked all summer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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

Russian TB might show the world the consequences of neglecting the health of poor people everywhere.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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