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Recent Examples of inattentive
Meanwhile, my dad — the lone male in a household full of women — occasionally earned himself gentle scolding for being too loud or inattentive during important conversations.
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Julianna Bragg, CNN, 3 Dec. 2024
Leap Year is primarily a showcase for high heels worn in improbable situations, like trudging through the muddy, hilly Irish countryside, where Adams gets waylaid en route to propose to her inattentive boyfriend (Adam Scott).
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
The results, published this week in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, says that lead exposure from car exhaust during children’s early development has made generations of Americans more depressed, anxious, inattentive and hyperactive.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024
Advertisement Dobbs did all this without looking flustered by the pass rush or inattentive to the proper passing progression.
—Tim Kawakami, The Athletic, 19 Aug. 2024
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Julianna Bragg, CNN, 3 Dec. 2024
Leap Year is primarily a showcase for high heels worn in improbable situations, like trudging through the muddy, hilly Irish countryside, where Adams gets waylaid en route to propose to her inattentive boyfriend (Adam Scott).
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
The results, published this week in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, says that lead exposure from car exhaust during children’s early development has made generations of Americans more depressed, anxious, inattentive and hyperactive.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024
Advertisement Dobbs did all this without looking flustered by the pass rush or inattentive to the proper passing progression.
—Tim Kawakami, The Athletic, 19 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inattentive
Adjective
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To this day, heedless shootings at parades are not unheard of in the Big Easy.—
Maurice Carlos Ruffin,
TIME,
3 Jan. 2025
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The gunman raised the weapon, heedless of a woman standing nearby on the sidewalk.—
Maria Cramer,
New York Times,
5 Dec. 2024
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For Walton, Candide represents an innocent, sometimes absent-minded, young individual who doesn’t know anything about the world—or really that much about himself.—
Miguel Sirgado,
Miami Herald,
6 Jan. 2025
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That rule is forgiving to absent-minded voters, but slows tallying because those ballots still need to go through signature checks and other processes.—
Sasha Hupka,
The Arizona Republic,
2 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Craig’s name was absent, though, from the BAFTAs Best Actor race—a competition that Stan is a part of.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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The main difference is that talc is now absent in its formula to make ashy finishes a thing of the past for deeper skin tones.—
Jennifer Hussein,
Allure,
23 Jan. 2025
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So Americans who don't travel, who 80 percent don't have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
28 Nov. 2024
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So, Americans who don’t travel, who 80 percent don’t have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naïveté.—
James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Nov. 2024
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Its abstracted scenario is a kind of back to the basics, expressing the sanctity of home, devotion and nature.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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The show’s overall environment was more akin to an abstracted living room than a standard runway setup.—
Lauren Vaccaro,
Architectural Digest,
28 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Whether these findings map onto kids who are unschooled in the context of worldschooling remains to be seen without systematic longitudinal studies; anecdotal evidence from the parents in my research suggests mixed results.—
Jennie Germann Molz,
Scientific American,
21 Oct. 2024
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Some research also suggests that children who are unschooled underperform on academic assessments, particularly regarding reading.—
Ej Dickson,
Rolling Stone,
24 June 2024
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Still, with this inspirational true story, the streamer stands to reach a much wider public than Perry’s typical audience, reminding how much of American history remains untaught and largely untold.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
6 Dec. 2024
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Until recent years, the story of how this period affected California’s Indigenous peoples had largely gone untaught or underrecognized.—
Anne Wallentine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 June 2024
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“Inattentive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inattentive. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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