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Adjective
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Half of likely voters remain inattentive to the race at this stage, meaning lower-polling candidates still retain potential pathways to growth if the field narrows organically.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2026 -
Tom Defur, also with the Caldwell Police Department, shared that his daughter was killed in a car crash because of an inattentive driver.—
Becca Savransky,
Idaho Statesman,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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She’s grown past her playful, unfocused answers at news conferences into efficient quips and timely pauses to give space for reaction.—
Marcus Thompson II,
New York Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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But for being just 38 minutes long (which is pretty short by most podcasting standards), the episode feels unfocused at best.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 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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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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Troopers from all 23 MSP barracks, including the State Police Impaired Driving Reduction Effort (SPIDRE) team, will be on the lookout for aggressive, distracted, and impaired driving.—
Andrew Adeolu,
CBS News,
14 Mar. 2026
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What’s more likely, Jones said, is that someone will be driving just plain fast, distracted, or intoxicated.—
Emily Holshouser,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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And so went the conversations of the day between mother and children, with each attempting to explain the uncommunicated emotions of the lost years.—
Emiliano Tahui Gómez,
Austin American Statesman,
17 Mar. 2026
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The lost hiker didn’t have cell service, but his phone’s light would have appeared on the SAR team’s thermal cameras.—
Owen Clarke,
Outside,
16 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Our heroines must somehow rescue themselves as well as an oblivious third party, while keeping the host unaware of their presence.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2026
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Despite his contemporary fellow Scotsman James Watt inventing the steam engine the same year that The Wealth of Nations was published, Smith was strangely oblivious as to the coming Industrial Revolution, as there was nothing yet automated in this pin factory.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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While the firm maintains its discretion and doesn’t disclose specific results, Blackman and her advisors don’t seem preoccupied with simply securing an Ivy League spot.—
Maria Williams,
USA Today,
9 Mar. 2026
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The agency was likely preoccupied with things like the war in Kosovo and hunting a Saudi dissident named Osama Bin Laden toward the end of the Nineties.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
3 Mar. 2026
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“Inobservant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inobservant. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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