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How to use the word Neglected in a Sentence?

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The Brasilia police neglected [ the attack threat ], Brasilia’s intelligence neglected it, it is easy to see in the footage the police officers talking to the attackers. There was an explicit connivance of the police with the demonstrators.

Luiz Inacio

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You neglected to be out there to see what these kids were doing, and you didn't watch them, so it's not what Dominick said. … You neglected these kids.

Laura Giacobbe

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We would like a more holistic response, risk perception was more neglected in the current pandemic strategy.

De Vries

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don't see( the special election) as a stepping stone. I see it as an opportunity to finally bring representation to a district that has been neglected for 10 years, generations upon generations of my family live in San Joaquin Valley and we're suffering with bad air, bad water. I'm just sick of San Joaquin Valley.

Eric Garcia

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Volunteering gives me the sense of camaraderie and service that I missed when I left the military, when COVID hit and we were n’t able to do our visits, it hurt deeply. Pin-Ups for Vets provides an opportunity to engage with an often neglected part of our veteran community, and I loved spending time with the vets we met through our regular visits.

Jennifer Marshall

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Until 24 hours ago, this compromise was also going to reprogram money away from House Democrats wasteful spending spree that neglected Covid needs, and reallocate it to vaccines and treatments for the American people, but House Democrats mutinied against Speaker Pelosi. The far left would rather preserve state and local bureaucrats' giant slush funds, then fund vaccines and therapeutics for The Ukrainian people citizens. So, the Covid component has fallen out.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Did it stop COVID ? Does n’t look to me like it did, did it gut the American economy like a fish ? Yes. Did it set our kids back years in terms of learning and socialization ? Yes. Did it lead to neglected health care from people with non-COVID illnesses ? Yes. Did it impact the whole world ? Yes. When America sneezes, the rest of the world gets a cold.

John Kennedy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While it's important that we've worked on preventing deaths from COVID, the other forms of death in our life — medical death — I believe, have been neglected, and so, I think it's fair that we study this type of thing to keep everything in balance and put everything in perspective.

Greg Murphy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think we neglected that a little bit, in the beginning when we came in, because Formula One grew very quickly in the last two years, in the beginning, when we started it was a lot smaller and now it seems … why we didn’t see that coming?

Gene Haas

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'd been watching a lot of' RuPaul's Drag Race' when I was examining the specimen under the microscope, so it was on my mind ! and I really wanted to give this group of flies a memorable name because it needs the attention -- the first specimen of this RuPaul fly was collected over a hundred years ago and sat neglected in a museum collection until someone with the knowledge of that group came along to name and document them.

Bryan Lessard

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We need a lot of help in this neighborhood and over the years we have been neglected. I came here in 2003, and since 2003 to 2021, we're getting flooding and nothing has been done, we have several projects that were completed in this block but it is not resolving the issue we have.

Sahadeo Bhagwandin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Cremated remains have been often neglected in the past studies, as bones are very fragmented and therefore considered scarcely informative, we can( now) better understand how society was organized, how people moved and how goods circulated. The more we know, the more we understand that the roots of our way of thinking have their origin in this fundamental period of European history.

Claudio Cavazzuti

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Poverty creates invisibility in so many communities. People feel like they need to be heard and when they are heard, it's only from the sense of violence, how do we help people become visible ? Invest money in these communities that have been neglected for generations.

Lester Young

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are advocating for a school system that works for all children, not just Black or Brown children, but what we are going to do first and foremost is start with those kids who have been marginalized and neglected for centuries.

Bettina Love

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'd just like to think of myself as a very small part of a very important chain that has to all work to try to reduce the number of homeless or neglected animals out there.

Jeremy Wade

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

President Trump did far more for minority populations than any other president, this AEA has conveniently neglected these indisputable facts and instead are peddling far-left extremist views.

Jake Chapman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

About 22 % to 30 % of people reported that their first experiences of weight stigma happened by age 10, but weight stigma by family persists over time, well into adulthood, that really speaks to the need to address the family environment, which often gets neglected in the context of weight stigma.

Rebecca Puhl

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We encourage all states to prioritize the quality, availability and funding for the care of displaced children who are US citizens. These are children who have generally been abused and neglected by those who should love them the most and, to that end, deserve and need the support of the public and private sectors in order to survive and have the opportunity for safe and productive lives. where is Congress? Congress needs to fix this problem. This is not a state issue. This is not a presidential executive order issue. This is Congress not having control.

Rosanna Berardi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was very furious with those teachers who neglected Ana’s request to see a doctor on Tuesday morning and after she had been sick overnight. Nothing was done to save her life.

Natalia Uglow

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We spend so much time, energy, and funding attending to factors we think can improve children's chances at a happy and successful life, but we have neglected the one factor that is perhaps most important of all : our children's ability to get along well with others and be perceived as likeable.

Mitch Prinstein

Found on CNN
3 years ago

President Trump neglected, minimized, and lied about this virus, stop lying and start acting. Use the full extent of your authorities, now, to ensure that we are producing all essential goods and delivering them.

Joe Biden

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The heating story is the one that usually just gets neglected. It's in the box called' too difficult,' how are you going to heat your house and do your cooking without natural gas ? The answer to that question is at considerable expense.

Dieter Helm

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The notion that Elizabeth Warren's staff or Elizabeth Warren herself has neglected this is very false. They're trying to be very, very careful.

Robert Pollin

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We need a Green New Deal based in climate and environmental justice, which means building a clean economy that protects communities that have been neglected by policymakers for far too long.

Kamala Harris

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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