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neglect

[ni-glekt] / nɪˈglɛkt /






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Eleanor Hazel Aldred-Owen died at Liverpool's Alder Hey Hospital on 2 October 2023 - a coroner concluded she died as a result of misadventure, contributed to by neglect.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 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

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

Acton, a pediatrician and former health director under Ohio’s current Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, has spoken openly during her campaign about facing abuse and neglect as a child, while in her mother’s custody.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

“And that was only water and a blade. Think what you might become if you were cleansed of thirteen years of dirt, neglect, and servitude.”

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

“We believe that this collective frenzy is deeply unproductive, neglects any and all facts of the case which disagree with the ‘preferred’ narrative, and infantilizes women,” wrote juniors Nikos Mohammadi and Christina Ma.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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

To Mr. Taylor, though, these desirable features leave trails and contradictions that Tolkien neglected to explain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Gynecological pain is so often neglected, and it’s a space where even small adjustments can represent an improvement.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

But the reality outside shows how much work remains to bridge the gap between the remarkable things this city builds and the often neglected spaces between.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Jeremy Vernon, 51, said despite having his kidney removed due to cancer he could not resist clearing neglected paths in his free time and it had made him a hit on social media.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Aureliano, for his part, had neglected the workshop in order to teach little Remedios to read and write.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Marketing leaders are “winning influence internally” with performance marketing, the report says, but they risk neglecting essential brand-building work in the process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 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

She’d been neglecting her hair, which was darker and straighter; her body had grown stubby, her face round.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood


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