woodenness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for woodenness
Noun
  • Super-sized Opportunities Workplace crises can be proactively prevented (or eventually explained) by tackling incentives, incompetence and indifference with stewardship, capability and care.
    Noah Barsky, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Causing a Stink After asking the dog's owner, Rick, to address the issue, the original poster (OP) was met with indifference.
    Darlin Tillery, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Whatever the reason, Maxwell’s strength and the shark’s apparent unconcern put one of Maxwell’s friends in danger.
    Donald Millus, Outdoor Life, 3 July 2025
  • But the other pole, blithe unconcern, carries its own dangers.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • In its breadth and aloofness, Death to Order feels like a distant cousin of Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Johan Grimonprez’s cavorting 1997 documentary about airliner hijackings.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
  • In short, any time the Obama administration has seemed to embrace a policy of regime change as heartily as the first-term Bush administration did, China has stopped supporting multilateral responses to regional and civil conflicts and pulled back to its earlier aloofness.
    Thomas J. Christensen, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2015
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“Woodenness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woodenness. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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