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Recent Examples of inattentive
There’s a fine line between obtrusive service, with servers buzzing like flies around the table, and inattentive service.
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Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Consider children who have five inattentive symptoms and five hyperactive-impulsive symptoms.
—Carol Mathews, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
Tips for riders Be prepared for inattentive drivers by staying focused on riding and keeping your speed in check.
—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
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Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Consider children who have five inattentive symptoms and five hyperactive-impulsive symptoms.
—Carol Mathews, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
Tips for riders Be prepared for inattentive drivers by staying focused on riding and keeping your speed in check.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inattentive
Adjective
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The cacophonous pileup of cars and trucks driven by a wide variety of animals feels like a metaphor for our hopelessly polarized, chaotic and heedless society.—
Sharon Mizota,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Feb. 2026
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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
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
Adjective
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Among the wins were directing (Paul Thomas Anderson), supporting actor (an absent Sean Penn), the coveted best picture award, and the inaugural statuette for casting.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
16 Mar. 2026
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Additionally, recipients must live in one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or the Northern Mariana Islands, and must not be absent from the United States for a full calendar month or 30 consecutive days.—
Asher Notheis,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Obama just went about his job and didn’t send untrained, uneducated wannabe stormtroopers into cities to intimidate people with tremendous shows of force.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb. 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
Adjective
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Sometimes the album feels like an abstracted version of electro-acoustic jazz in the ’80s, when the frontline instrumentation of traditional jazz was still intact but the tools for rhythm had changed completely.—
Mark Richardson,
Pitchfork,
12 Mar. 2026
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She’s partnered with The Vault on a one-of-one set that’s the epitome of her ethos, a style built on an abstracted lotus flower.—
Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
17 Feb. 2026
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 17 Mar. 2026.
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