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Recent Examples of inattentive
Investigators found many of the crashes involved inattentive drivers, some of whom appeared to mistakenly assume the driver-assistance technology functioned as fully autonomous driving.
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Martina Di Licosa, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
The Kodiak Driver achieved perfect scores of 100 in inattentive driving, high-risk driving and traffic violations.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
There’s a fine line between obtrusive service, with servers buzzing like flies around the table, and inattentive service.
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Consider children who have five inattentive symptoms and five hyperactive-impulsive symptoms.
—Carol Mathews, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
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Martina Di Licosa, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
The Kodiak Driver achieved perfect scores of 100 in inattentive driving, high-risk driving and traffic violations.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
There’s a fine line between obtrusive service, with servers buzzing like flies around the table, and inattentive service.
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Consider children who have five inattentive symptoms and five hyperactive-impulsive symptoms.
—Carol Mathews, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inattentive
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The cacophonous pileup of cars and trucks driven by a wide variety of animals feels like a metaphor for our hopelessly polarized, chaotic and heedless society.—
Sharon Mizota,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Feb. 2026
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The rules of polite society would bar this particular group from fraternizing together in such a heedless manner, but the Bridgerton wrap party brought the crew together for what appears to have been a very good time indeed.—
Sophie Dodd,
PEOPLE,
29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The show offered her five more episodes—her rent for the year—and the absent-minded waitress became a recurring character named Ursula.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2026
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The little boy went to school but was absent-minded, always hunched over books and filling the pages with endless drawings.—
Elena Banfi,
Vanity Fair,
19 Jan. 2026
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Karwai Tang / WireImage via Getty Images The monarch's younger brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was arrested in February by police on suspicion of misconduct in public office, was absent after attending last year's Easter gathering accompanied by ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
5 Apr. 2026
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Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images Andrew, the king's brother and former prince, his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson and their daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, were absent after attending last year.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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Chaiwalas, or street tea venders, have long been taken as emblems of the small-scale entrepreneurialism by which uneducated Indians can gain subsistence, and, in theory, something more.—
Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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Dientes was a peasant, substantially illiterate and uneducated.—
Chandler Fritz,
The New York Review of Books,
21 Mar. 2026
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Sometimes the album feels like an abstracted version of electro-acoustic jazz in the ’80s, when the frontline instrumentation of traditional jazz was still intact but the tools for rhythm had changed completely.—
Mark Richardson,
Pitchfork,
12 Mar. 2026
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She’s partnered with The Vault on a one-of-one set that’s the epitome of her ethos, a style built on an abstracted lotus flower.—
Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
17 Feb. 2026
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By comparison, Danceny is practically a boy, unschooled in the art of manipulation, and Reeves provides the character with the appropriate youthful naïveté.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
18 Oct. 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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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 Apr. 2026.
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