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Recent Examples of inattentive
Tips for riders Be prepared for inattentive drivers by staying focused on riding and keeping your speed in check.
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Mars King, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2025
The remark was striking in its directness and suggested the pilot may have been inattentive at a critical moment.
—Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2025
The fears of my imagination, the possibility of losing a child due to one inattentive moment, all combined to leave me gasping for breath.
—Adam Verner
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
In the interview, Mustafa describes Seeley as inattentive and overly aggressive, both with his words and even physically in otherwise friendly pillow fights.
—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
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Mars King, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2025
The remark was striking in its directness and suggested the pilot may have been inattentive at a critical moment.
—Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2025
The fears of my imagination, the possibility of losing a child due to one inattentive moment, all combined to leave me gasping for breath.
—Adam Verner
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
In the interview, Mustafa describes Seeley as inattentive and overly aggressive, both with his words and even physically in otherwise friendly pillow fights.
—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inattentive
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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
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At the time, investors were understandably looking ahead to an all-inclusive fourth-quarter ramp, which probably would have tripped into excessive optimism and heedless speculation.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
5 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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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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Travelers are becoming more absent-minded, and experts are struggling to understand why.—
Wilson Santiago Burgos,
USA Today,
7 Jan. 2026
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Due to Tom’s disappearance, Claflin is largely absent outside of flashbacks that show the couple’s meet-cute in Jordan, where Alice was digging for artifacts and Tom distributed vaccines for a pro-refugee NGO called SOS Global.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
1 Feb. 2026
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Scientists agree that, absent intervention, Thwaites’s retreat will accelerate within the next century and the glacier will eventually collapse.—
Christian Elliott,
The Atlantic,
31 Jan. 2026
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Additionally, data released by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics in September revealed that nearly half of the country’s youth population, aged 18 to 30, is unemployed, uneducated, or lacking training.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
14 Jan. 2026
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Impeach this uneducated traitor to our values!—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
3 Jan. 2026
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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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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 5 Feb. 2026.
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