as in heedless
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Recent Examples of inattentive
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.
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Brooke Knisley, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
Others shared their own experiences with inattentive recruiters.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Feb. 2025
Minnesota State Patrol also responded to the crash and cited Ward at the scene for inattentive driving.
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2025
Randle has often been slow to close out on 3-point shooters and inattentive off the ball.
—Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
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Brooke Knisley, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
Others shared their own experiences with inattentive recruiters.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Feb. 2025
Minnesota State Patrol also responded to the crash and cited Ward at the scene for inattentive driving.
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2025
Randle has often been slow to close out on 3-point shooters and inattentive off the ball.
—Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inattentive
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Others marveled that the Foreign Office could have been so heedless as to send such a sensitive communication via wireless, and expressed their bewilderment that a top-secret document could have ended up in American hands.—
Timothy W. Ryback,
The Atlantic,
11 Apr. 2025
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Our goal is to bleed Russia dry with Ukrainian soldiers and sacrifices heedless of the industrial-scale suffering inflicted on the Ukrainian people.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Feb. 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
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All this leads, as elegantly and fluidly as a chain of thought, to Fielder revisiting a conflict with Paramount+ over the Summit Ice episode of Nathan for You, which remains conspicuously absent from the service.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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Modi, who is said to do several hours of yoga every day, typically wore simple kurtas, and members of his immediate family worked in modest jobs and were conspicuously absent from senior government positions; whatever other allegations floated around him, he could not be accused of material greed.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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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
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Similar views applied to immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, whom many Americans regarded as poor, uneducated, and inferior.—
Made by History,
Time,
26 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
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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 4 May. 2025.
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