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Recent Examples of forgetful Rather than trying to navigate life with messy and forgetful parent or being shuttled off to yet another activity as might happen in the other two types of families. Kara Nesvig, Parents, 5 May 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 New York took the top spot as the most forgetful, followed by Miami and Chicago. Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2025 Any panicked, forgetful partners can always make a quick stop at a local flower shop to pick up a boutique of traditional roses, including at Flowerama in Mundelein, where Valentine’s sales account for half of the shop’s yearly business. Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for forgetful
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Adjective
  • In an era where so many action movies feel bloated, impersonal, or too preoccupied with setting up spin-offs, Plane is refreshingly straightforward.
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • Nora and Madeline, meanwhile, aren’t as well developed, but then again, they’re both entirely preoccupied throughout with trying to understand what on earth is going on in this creepy house, what their mothers aren’t telling them and why.
    Ilana Masad, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • Despite decades of existence, Jack in the Box’s sales remain stagnant, its strategy appears confused, and investors are becoming increasingly uneasy.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • After social media backlash, including a confused reaction from Dr. Dre and legendary B-Boy Crazy Legs, the 37-year-old issued an apology to the breaking community.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • O'Brien returns to lend his voice to Lawrence Fletcher, Ferb's sweet but absent-minded dad.
    EW.com, EW.com, 7 June 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Many kids want to keep playing at the park or in the pool, totally oblivious to the fact that their parents are desperate to sit in front of the AC for a few minutes.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 27 June 2025
  • Meanwhile, at Casa, an oblivious Cierra is starting to make a connection with bombshell Elan.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • There were also problems connecting to the internet and to phone networks, leaving many bewildered and unable to obtain information.
    Catherine Porter, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Tornado is a bewildered Japanese girl (played by pop singer Kôki) who fights off a horde of white men, thieving gold vagabonds who represent both Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Celtic ancestry.
    Armond White, National Review, 4 June 2025

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“Forgetful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forgetful. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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