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Six example sentences with negligent, each labelled with its topic.
The court found the contractor negligent for leaving an open trench unlit and unfenced beside a school footpath.
Law
Leaving a sterile tray uncovered for an hour was negligent, and the ward changed its checklist that same afternoon.
Medicine
The refinery was negligent in checking its tank seals, and diesel seeped into the creek for eleven months.
Environment
The regulator found the adviser negligent for moving a retiree's savings into a fund he had never read about.
Finance
Storing passwords in plain text was negligent, and the breach that followed surprised nobody who had seen the code.
Technology
The inspector called the firm negligent for skipping the soil survey, which would have shown the clay beneath the footings.
Architecture
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