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Meatpacking companies “have refused to take basic precautions to protect their workers, many of whom earn extremely low wages and lack adequate paid leave, and have shown a callous disregard for workers’ health,” Clyburn said in the letters.
House Democrats Launch Investigation of OSHA, Meat Plants Over COVID-19 Outbreaks|Abigail Abrams|February 2, 2021|Time
More bizarrely, the planets have arranged themselves with complete disregard for the standard layout that most solar systems tend to follow.
These 6 exoplanets somehow orbit their star in perfect rhythm|Charlie Wood|January 27, 2021|Popular-Science
The slave code brings into view a host of assumptions about who is valued and who is not, about who has standing in this country and who can be treated, to echo the sentiment of the Dred Scott case, with a generalized sense of disregard.
We Can Make America Anew Only If We're Honest About the Depth of the Ugliness and Hate Today|Eddie S. Glaude Jr.|January 11, 2021|Time
Hard to call this a true victory for press freedom, given the judge's disregard for journalists' rights in the ruling.
Why Julian Assange’s victory does little to help the cause of press freedom|David Meyer|January 4, 2021|Fortune

Its popularity reflects a confusing combination of trust in maps and respect for institutions with a complete disregard for science and scholarship.
Truth in mapping|Katie McLean|December 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review
But Jackson disregarded him and went straight to the magistrate.
Stonewall Jackson, VMI’s Most Embattled Professor|S. C. Gwynne|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In reality, the Iraqi borders had been arbitrarily drawn and disregarded 2,000 years of tribal, sectarian, and nomadic occupation.
Gertrude of Arabia, the Woman Who Invented Iraq|Clive Irving|June 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Pentagon disregarded the order and sent two huge planes to pass over a group of tiny uninhabited islands south-west of Japan.
U.S. Uses B-52 Bombers to Brush Back Chinese Expansion|Nico Hines|November 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Davies said he disregarded these orders but did not want to displease a man he respected so much.
CBS Backs Off Benghazi Source|Eli Lake|November 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
As settlers sanctified their vision and disregarded Jewish opposition, they divided the nation.
Halevi's 'Like Dreamers' Is the Big Book On Israel We've Been Waiting For|Don Futterman|October 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But all his dying68 advice and solemn charges the Prince eventually disregarded.
King Robert the Bruce|A. F. Murison
There is an entry in Godalming parish registers, on this very road, which shows that this was no disregarded law.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries|Charles G. Harper
Alone in the Assembly, without a friend, he attacked all parties alike, and was by all disregarded.
Madame Roland, Makers of History|John S. C. Abbott
Hence, when lawful covenant engagements are disregarded by a community, the excellence which gave it an attractive power is gone.
The Ordinance of Covenanting|John Cunningham
But it is certain that, if there was murmuring among the Jacobites, it was disregarded by James.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay

British Dictionary definitions for disregard

disregard

/ (ˌdɪsrɪˈɡɑːd) /

verb (tr)

to give little or no attention to; ignore

to treat as unworthy of consideration or respect

noun

lack of attention or respect

(often plural) social welfare capital or income which is not counted in calculating the amount payable to a claimant for a means-tested benefit

Derived forms of disregard

disregarder, noundisregardful, adjectivedisregardfully, adverbdisregardfulness, noun

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