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Recent Examples of unresponsive
Officials said relatives arrived at the home in the 800 block of South Main Street in North East Wednesday and found the 34-year-old man unresponsive in the living room and the woman and child disoriented.
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Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 5 Dec. 2024
Louisville Metro Police are investigating after a 1-week-old girl was found unresponsive in the Russell neighborhood and later died Thursday morning.
—Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Dec. 2024
The power plant is a subsidiary of Arizona Public Service Co.
Olver, 50, was found unresponsive on-site on Nov. 7 during his 10-day contract at Redhawk.
—Karen Bartunek, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2024
Deputies at the home tried to save the unresponsive teen, later identified as Giselle Glover, but she was pronounced dead at a hospital.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 21 Nov. 2024
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Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 5 Dec. 2024
Louisville Metro Police are investigating after a 1-week-old girl was found unresponsive in the Russell neighborhood and later died Thursday morning.
—Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Dec. 2024
The power plant is a subsidiary of Arizona Public Service Co.
Olver, 50, was found unresponsive on-site on Nov. 7 during his 10-day contract at Redhawk.
—Karen Bartunek, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2024
Deputies at the home tried to save the unresponsive teen, later identified as Giselle Glover, but she was pronounced dead at a hospital.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 21 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unresponsive
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Sinner currently has a higher floor and is far less prone to playing a few listless sets in a row; uncertainty of a different kind surrounds him because of the potential for a doping ban of up to two years.Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
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While the show was a bit listless at first, everything changed in that fateful moment when Candice and Penner stepped off the mat.Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
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However, this doesn’t mean individuals with autism are uninterested in relationships or should function in isolation.Hashim Hayat, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Its battery pack promised to take you about as far as the gas tank on a 450, for up to six hours of trail riding, and Stark Future, the Spanish company behind this electric fire-breather seemed uninterested in anything short of world domination.New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Dec. 2024
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Even the current administration has be lackadaisical in the approach.Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 16 Dec. 2024
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For centuries Champagne producers set large crops, harvested unripe fruit and bolstered their lackadaisical vineyard efforts by adding copious amounts of sugar (dosage), with uniformity and consistency being the goal.Patrick Comiskey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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To be sure, securing trademarks is a relatively perfunctory bit of legal housekeeping and doesn’t necessarily indicate grander plans are underway.Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 22 Dec. 2024
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The will-they-won’t-they pairings that should light up these characters feel similarly perfunctory.Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2024
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Momeni appeared unemotional as the verdict was read, as did his lead attorney, who joined the hearing via Zoom, the station reported.Phil Helsel, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2024
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Schmidt’s unemotional and seemingly effortless style of play did not sit well with the fans.John Perrotto, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Despite Butcher's efforts, Homelander is grooming Ryan to be an uncaring, murderous Supe like himself.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
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And wearing a smile while delivering bad news, such as budget cuts or layoffs, makes a leader appear uncaring and out of touch.Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D., Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Yet Connell of all people, whose pretentious classmates use novels to seem superior, should know that the love of literature is hardly disinterested.Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
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Gorka was forced out of his role as an advisor during Trump’s first presidency after John Kelly, Trump’s chief of staff, became disinterested in keeping him, administration officials told the New York Times.Ty Roush, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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Mangold wisely cast Winona Ryder, who often played alienated and apathetic young women, as Kaysen, who is forced by her parents to live in a mental institution after an accidental overdose.Will Leitch, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
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The performance of such duties was accorded a measure of reverence even as guards were often cast as apathetic or incompetent.Jasper Craven, Harper's Magazine, 23 July 2024
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“Unresponsive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unresponsive. Accessed 9 Jan. 2025.
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