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Recent Examples of inattentive
The remark was striking in its directness and suggested the pilot may have been inattentive at a critical moment.
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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
The vices of deficiency, such as being anxious, agitated, impatient, inattentive, and rash, are common everyday experiences.
—Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
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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
The vices of deficiency, such as being anxious, agitated, impatient, inattentive, and rash, are common everyday experiences.
—Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inattentive
Adjective
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The heedless afternoons of childhood meet the fatherless afternoons of late middle age, and the bereaved son is in danger of being buried in them.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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To him, though, the bistro is perfect, rich in singular details that people of more heedless taste might have scrubbed away.—
Nathan Heller,
Vogue,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Police always investigate a drowning to rule out cases of abuse or extreme neglect, but an absent-minded parent accidentally forgetting to lock the pool gate or door to the backyard was unlikely to land them behind bars, Hoskin said.—
Perry Vandell,
AZCentral.com,
16 July 2025
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For absent-minded individuals who are constantly losing their phone or wallet, the Apple AirTag will save the day.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
8 July 2025
Adjective
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The vote was 6-2 against Buchanan's reappointment, with two board members absent.—
Joseph Flaherty,
Arkansas Online,
8 Nov. 2025
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Traditional holiday themes of generosity, salvation, and tradition are mostly absent here.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Which is to say, this isn’t the story of a greedy, materialistic man who suffers a crisis of conscience while trying to pry a priceless treasure away from an uneducated hick who doesn’t know any better.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
29 Oct. 2025
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The people who looked Indigenous were the uneducated characters, the cartoon characters.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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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 15 Nov. 2025.
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