as in heedless
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Recent Examples of inattentive
Such maneuverings were particularly effective in areas where the state’s presence was weak or inattentive.
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Elizabeth Dickinson, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024
Many cities submitted petitions to an inattentive Parliament.
—Devoney Looser, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
Research shows that girls with ADHD more often display inattentive symptoms along with characteristics not traditionally associated with ADHD, such as shyness, perfectionism and eating disorders.
—Kate Harrington, The Conversation, 25 July 2024
Numerous graduates said their own experiences in homeless shelters or with inattentive social workers motivated them to pursue careers in the field.
—Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
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Elizabeth Dickinson, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024
Many cities submitted petitions to an inattentive Parliament.
—Devoney Looser, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
Research shows that girls with ADHD more often display inattentive symptoms along with characteristics not traditionally associated with ADHD, such as shyness, perfectionism and eating disorders.
—Kate Harrington, The Conversation, 25 July 2024
Numerous graduates said their own experiences in homeless shelters or with inattentive social workers motivated them to pursue careers in the field.
—Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inattentive
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Phishing sites are fraudulent pages that ape secure sites and try to fool heedless visitors into giving away their credentials.PCMAG, PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
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For better or for worse, Henri Bendel and the Worlds He Fashioned is a complete story: The book takes us up to 2019, when the store, in the heedless hands of L Brands, closed up shop for good.Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
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Colleagues described him as an absent-minded professor type.Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
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The French might be sad if Emily leaves for Italy, but Americans in Paris are unlikely to shed any tears; many of them have had enough of the Chicago native’s absent-minded cultural blunders.Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2024
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Tarek's daughter and Heather's stepdaughter Taylor, 14, was absent from the family photos, and Heather was quick to explain why in the caption of the carousel.Rachel Raposas, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
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Across the near entirety of Malik’s solo career, the 31-year-old has remained absent from the live circuit, citing struggles with stage fright.Sophie Williams, Billboard, 27 Nov. 2024
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So Americans who don't travel, who 80 percent don't have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
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So, Americans who don’t travel, who 80 percent don’t have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naïveté.James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2024
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The show’s overall environment was more akin to an abstracted living room than a standard runway setup.Lauren Vaccaro, Architectural Digest, 28 Nov. 2024
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Larry Aldrich, the museum’s founder, visited Diamond’s studio in 1972 and subsequently acquired Untitled (1972), one of her early abstracted landscapes, and put it in a group show—marking her first museum acquisition and exhibition.Grace Edquist, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
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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
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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 11 Dec. 2024.
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