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Six example sentences with indifference, each labelled with its topic.
Her indifference to both prizes puzzled the researchers, since every other volunteer had ranked one reward above the other.
Psychology
The curator hung both canvases at equal height, an indifference to rank that annoyed the older painter enormously.
Art
The commission treated every petition with the same cool indifference, favoring no district and answering all of them identically.
Politics
An indifference curve links every bundle of goods a shopper values equally, whether two apples and a pear or one apple and three.
Economics
Buridan's donkey, standing in perfect indifference between two identical haystacks, goes hungry because nothing tips it either way.
Philosophy
A good arbitrator brings the same indifference to both parties, treating the shipping giant and the small supplier as equals.
Law
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Found in these word lists
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)Authoritative
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- Magoosh GRE 1000Recognized
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