as in heedless
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Recent Examples of inattentive
In many cases, voters did not even bother to read the names on the ballots, enabling some unscrupulous politicos to use their opponents’ symbols to trick inattentive voters.
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Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
This is particularly true of females with the disorder, whose behavior as children tends to be more inattentive than hyperactive like the stereotypical boy with ADHD.
—Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
Such maneuverings were particularly effective in areas where the state’s presence was weak or inattentive.
—Elizabeth Dickinson, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024
Many cities submitted petitions to an inattentive Parliament.
—Devoney Looser, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
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Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
This is particularly true of females with the disorder, whose behavior as children tends to be more inattentive than hyperactive like the stereotypical boy with ADHD.
—Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
Such maneuverings were particularly effective in areas where the state’s presence was weak or inattentive.
—Elizabeth Dickinson, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024
Many cities submitted petitions to an inattentive Parliament.
—Devoney Looser, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inattentive
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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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Phishing sites are fraudulent pages that ape secure sites and try to fool heedless visitors into giving away their credentials.PCMAG, PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
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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
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Colleagues described him as an absent-minded professor type.Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
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Carven had been absent from the runways and without a marquee designer for several years.Luisa Zargani, WWD, 12 Dec. 2024
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With Manchin absent in the Senate, and the vote tied at 49-49, a potential tie-breaking vote from Vice President Harris was possible.Axios, Axios, 12 Dec. 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 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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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
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Larry Aldrich, the museum’s founder, visited Diamond’s studio in 1972 and subsequently acquired Untitled (1972), one of her early abstracted landscapes, and put it in a group show—marking her first museum acquisition and exhibition.Grace Edquist, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
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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 22 Dec. 2024.
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