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Adjective
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In the interview, Mustafa describes Seeley as inattentive and overly aggressive, both with his words and even physically in otherwise friendly pillow fights.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
26 Aug. 2025 -
The vices of deficiency, such as being anxious, agitated, impatient, inattentive, and rash, are common everyday experiences.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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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Anderson’s account shows just how ill-informed and unfocused its approach was to the events of 1978–79.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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And in Longo’s image, the subtext is the absent laborer.—
Kristen Tauer,
Footwear News,
6 Sep. 2025
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If students were not in class, they would be marked absent but would be excused if a parent called them out.—
Alec Johnson,
jsonline.com,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The Lincoln Nautilus is an underappreciated contender in the luxury midsize SUV market, part of a brand that seems tired, itself part of an automaker that seems perpetually distracted, itself part of an automotive ecosystem that is awash in luxury midsize SUVs from very, very tough competitors.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
2 Sep. 2025
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In 1980, when Iraq’s president, Saddam Hussein, seized oil fields on the Iranian border, under the assumption that Iran was too distracted to object, Iran saw an opportunity to pivot to fighting external enemies.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Goudstikker did not take any paintings with him, but kept a black notebook containing the details of his collection, which has since helped his family recover the lost artwork.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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Dave Kanosh points out that another characteristic of the Kóoshdaa Káa is that the spirit will occasionally assume the form of the lost person, either to confuse people or to lure them away, too.—
Bjorn Dihle,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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And when that fish, in turn, succumbs to the claws of a bald eagle, its DDT dense meat becomes a poisonous lunch for an oblivious bird.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
3 Sep. 2025
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Alex also still seems to be oblivious to her feelings towards him.—
Lexy Perez,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Qualtrics comes at the challenge of engaging customers from a different angle, but its CEO, Zig Serafin, is similarly preoccupied with how AI can improve companies’ interactions with consumers.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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There resides brooding 16-year-old Billy 5000 (Jack Corbett), who has left his childish interests behind to become preoccupied with making money delivering food via an app called Grubster (the reference to a real-life service couldn’t be more intentional).—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Inobservant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inobservant. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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