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failure to carefully think about, listen to, or watch someone or something
- Many traffic accidents are the result of driver inattention.
- They lost several potential clients through their inattention to detail.
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“Inattention.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inattention. Accessed 18 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of inattention was circa 1670
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