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Adjective
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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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The scripts honestly don’t have a clue who Jake is, and Law’s performance is thoroughly unfocused, if emotionally persuasive at moments.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Sep. 2025
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What this means for users seeking college admissions guidance is that AI platforms cannot discern whether uncommon or out-of-the-ordinary patterns in extracurricular guidance, personal statement topics, summer planning, or hook development are weak and unfocused or unique and eye-catching.—
Christopher Rim,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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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
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And by the time Bob finally reaches the border of that emptiness, the actor playing him no longer feels the least bit absent from himself.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
26 Sep. 2025
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Fernandez was absent from the meeting.—
Michelle Marchante
September 26,
Miami Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The music flows with a nice distracted elegance.—
Jon Dolan,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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Excessive speed, distracted and impaired driving are the leading causes of crashes in Michigan, MSP Second District Public Information Officer Lt.—
Natalie Davies,
Freep.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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Many users commiserated over the delay, many joking about the United States Postal Service and the mysteries of lost mail.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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As with The Studio, the winking could speak to a culture that cares more for the lost art in theory than in practice.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Pixels are flying from shelves as users embrace the AI generation, still oblivious to most of the privacy compromises implied in over-sharing with AI assistants operating in corporate data centers.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Back home, Arya is busy with her favorite search games and word play, oblivious to her superpower.—
Anirban Mukhopadhyay,
Scientific American,
18 Sep. 2025
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Science fiction is still preoccupied with real world fears about the pitfalls and potential dangers of AI.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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What's popular is appearing preoccupied, too busy scrolling on one's phone to look around—and too caught up with one's many friends to make any new ones at a mall.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Inobservant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inobservant. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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