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Recent Examples of distrait Roman bored, Kendall oddly distrait. Hunter Harris, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for distrait
Adjective
  • The climax is a horrendous German burning of a village, as striking for its visual imagery as for its agitated music.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The inaugural film in The Conjuring franchise understands that seasoned viewers of haunted-house films know what signs to look for by now: cold spots, agitated pets, clocks that stop ticking.
    Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Thirty minutes later, the Sun reported, medics still had not tended to a distraught woman half-buried by the shattered stands, groaning, with both legs apparently broken.
    Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Viel found a distraught Pasadena woman who saw flames approaching a coop that housed pet chickens and ducks behind her home on Altadena Drive.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The quick minute-and-a-half clip introduces us to a frantic Mullen, who's testing different codes on a safe to try and break into it.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • McConnell remembers strangers stopping in the road to pray for the boy before he was rushed to Children’s Hospital New Orleans after a police officer assured the frantic mother that her son was still alive.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In the meantime, state and city health departments are worried about how the communications pause might affect their communities.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
  • A number of men and women on Mitchell’s team were worried about their health and safety, the lawsuit says, so Mitchell raised the issue during the training sessions.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Growers reported a drop in workers showing up to their jobs, and advocacy groups saw a surge of frightened families show up to legal workshops on how to protect themselves against deportation.
    Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • When Julia arrived with a can of cat food, the first kitten had already been adopted, but the second—a frightened and feisty tabby—was still there.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024

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“Distrait.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distrait. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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