as in heedless
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Recent Examples of inattentive
For instance, trust will be eroded when a person demonstrates a lack of temperance, which manifests as being agitated, impatient, inattentive, rash, and anxious instead of being composed, patient, prudent, self-controlled, and calm.
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Mary Crossan, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
An inattentive public might simply see a Washington melee—the disrupters against the bureaucrats.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2025
After two inattentive supervisors leave a group of miners trapped underground following a methane explosion during a Valentine’s Day dance, one miner must cannibalize his deceased comrades to survive until he is freed from the shaft — a week later.
—Brooke Knisley, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
Others shared their own experiences with inattentive recruiters.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Feb. 2025
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Mary Crossan, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
An inattentive public might simply see a Washington melee—the disrupters against the bureaucrats.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2025
After two inattentive supervisors leave a group of miners trapped underground following a methane explosion during a Valentine’s Day dance, one miner must cannibalize his deceased comrades to survive until he is freed from the shaft — a week later.
—Brooke Knisley, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
Others shared their own experiences with inattentive recruiters.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inattentive
Adjective
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The cowboy operates on his own personal code heedless of others.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 May 2025
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More significantly, the vengeful felon-in-chief has sent a clear-cut message: Oppose his heedless, plainly unconstitutional actions in court — one of the only avenues left to fight Trump’s creeping authoritarianism — and there will be a dear price to pay.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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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
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Your nails go through a lot: handwashing, polishing, maybe some absent-minded picking (guilty).—
Jessica Kasparian,
SELF,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Although she was set to present the award for duo of the year alongside her longtime partner Kristian Bush, the artist was noticeably absent when the cameras panned to Bush, 55, who delivered his speech solo from the award stage.—
Chris Barilla,
People.com,
9 May 2025
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But former President George W. Bush was noticeably absent from the gathering to celebrate his mother, as was his younger brother, former Florida governor Jeb Bush.—
Karu F. Daniels,
New York Daily News,
9 May 2025
Adjective
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The Catholic Church openly collaborated with the Ustaše, whose support came largely from young men with rural, blue-collar, uneducated backgrounds.—
Larry Luxner,
Sun Sentinel,
5 May 2025
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Look, the game is about first impressions and making decisions that are sort of uneducated.—
Michael Cuby,
Them.,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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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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Its abstracted scenario is a kind of back to the basics, expressing the sanctity of home, devotion and nature.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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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Some research also suggests that children who are unschooled underperform on academic assessments, particularly regarding reading.—
Ej Dickson,
Rolling Stone,
24 June 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 25 May. 2025.
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