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Recent Examples of forgetful For the uninitiated or the forgetful, here’s what to consider. Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025 The forgetful habit of misplacing or losing essential belongings is a universal experience, resulting in an average person losing approximately four items a month and more than 3,000 in their lifetime. Ethan Stone, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025 Vittorio began the research and development stage with a belief that Lost & Found is a niche industry that only a few types of customers are aware of – think forgetful individuals, travelers, or parents of raucous, energetic offspring. Ethan Stone, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025 For the uninitiated or the forgetful, here’s everything to consider for New York’s primetime looks. Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for forgetful
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Adjective
  • The United States had withdrawn from the World Health Organization and the U.N. Human Rights Council; the State Department seemed more preoccupied with deportations than with diplomacy.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Early in this episode, Dina mentions to a preoccupied Joel that one of the community’s underground pipes — connected to the outside — has been rendered useless by encroaching roots.
    Noel Murray, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The two ‘deals’ have left tariff policy more confused than ever, argues columnist Michael Hiltzik.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
  • Pew found 55% of Republicans are confused about the information out there on climate change--but this was also true for 39% of Democrats.
    Robert G. Eccles, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • Ludwig Von Drake Ludwig Von Drake is the wise and eccentric professor who is known to be brilliant, but sometimes an absent-minded scientist and inventor.
    Lauryn Higgins, Parents, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Your nails go through a lot: handwashing, polishing, maybe some absent-minded picking (guilty).
    Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • But these characters — oblivious hipsters with limited prospects and even more limited resources — couldn’t be more different from Allen’s affluent and accomplished Upper West Siders.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 9 May 2025
  • Miraculously, those same analysts are oblivious to cost of diverting dozens of cases from federal courts into our state court system and creating juicy financial incentives for lawsuits to multiply.
    Mark Hillman, Denver Post, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The actor—who is also currently filming season three of Euphoria—took the time to walk the wide-eyed and probably quite bewildered pup around the carpeted front of the hotel, and looked chic doing it.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 7 May 2025
  • Heyman then handed the chair to a bewildered Roman Reigns, who used it to strike downed CM Punk.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025

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“Forgetful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forgetful. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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