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Recent Examples of inattentive
Ball is too inattentive on that end despite his impressive offensive skill set, and Miller is quite skinny and struggles to wall up on opposing guards and wings through his core.
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Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 12 May 2025
For instance, trust will be eroded when a person demonstrates a lack of temperance, which manifests as being agitated, impatient, inattentive, rash, and anxious instead of being composed, patient, prudent, self-controlled, and calm.
—Mary Crossan, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
The Massachusetts legislature was not completely inattentive during this time, creating new district courts in Maine and allowing the counties in Maine to vote on the issue several times, with each successive occasion garnering a greater portion of the vote.
— Made By History, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
The Massachusetts legislature was not completely inattentive during this time, creating new district courts in Maine and allowing the counties in Maine to vote on the issue several times, with each successive occasion garnering a greater portion of the vote.
— Made By History, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
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Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 12 May 2025
For instance, trust will be eroded when a person demonstrates a lack of temperance, which manifests as being agitated, impatient, inattentive, rash, and anxious instead of being composed, patient, prudent, self-controlled, and calm.
—Mary Crossan, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
The Massachusetts legislature was not completely inattentive during this time, creating new district courts in Maine and allowing the counties in Maine to vote on the issue several times, with each successive occasion garnering a greater portion of the vote.
— Made By History, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
The Massachusetts legislature was not completely inattentive during this time, creating new district courts in Maine and allowing the counties in Maine to vote on the issue several times, with each successive occasion garnering a greater portion of the vote.
— Made By History, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inattentive
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And people saw the delivery guys, who at least had some excuse For heedless and high-speed bike riding—their livelihood depended on it!— And decided to imitate them.—
Jenny Allen,
New Yorker,
19 June 2025
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The actor’s work with the Coen brothers had honed his gifts for heedless confidence and rapid banter, both of which Foxy has in spades.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
12 June 2025
Adjective
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Police always investigate a drowning to rule out cases of abuse or extreme neglect, but an absent-minded parent accidentally forgetting to lock the pool gate or door to the backyard was unlikely to land them behind bars, Hoskin said.—
Perry Vandell,
AZCentral.com,
16 July 2025
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For absent-minded individuals who are constantly losing their phone or wallet, the Apple AirTag will save the day.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
8 July 2025
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Isak has been absent from Newcastle’s pre-season tour of Asia, with sources, speaking anonymously as they were not authorised to do so publicly, saying the decision was the player’s preference.—
David Ornstein,
New York Times,
2 Aug. 2025
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Kugler was absent from the Fed’s latest meeting, in which officials voted to hold borrowing costs steady for the fifth consecutive time.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
1 Aug. 2025
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Still, despite the glut of legal graduates, his shift in focus was an unusual move for an ambitious young man in a country where farming is seen as a job for old, uneducated or poor people.—
Carmen Abd Ali,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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The Catholic Church openly collaborated with the Ustaše, whose support came largely from young men with rural, blue-collar, uneducated backgrounds.—
Larry Luxner,
Sun Sentinel,
5 May 2025
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Once solar time in Greenwich had been carried, night and day, around the spinning globe, time became highly abstracted, cut away from its animal home so as to be more easily figured both geologically and evolutionarily.—
Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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The invaluable bond between artist and muse is exemplified by their abstracted slumbering embrace, her nude form dominating our gaze as her rosy flesh juxtaposes with the jade-sage background.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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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 6 Aug. 2025.
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