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also unfocussed
as in muddled
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Recent Examples of unfocused
Anderson’s account shows just how ill-informed and unfocused its approach was to the events of 1978–79.
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Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025
The focus group for Bobby’s beer is similarly unfocused.
—Genevieve Koski, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2025
But while both can leave you drained and unfocused, burnout runs deeper.
—Lauryn Higgins, Time, 24 June 2025
But the county has had to scale back its services and improvements to basic, critical infrastructure because of the unfocused overspending in the last several years.
—Jim Desmond, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2025
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Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025
The focus group for Bobby’s beer is similarly unfocused.
—Genevieve Koski, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2025
But while both can leave you drained and unfocused, burnout runs deeper.
—Lauryn Higgins, Time, 24 June 2025
But the county has had to scale back its services and improvements to basic, critical infrastructure because of the unfocused overspending in the last several years.
—Jim Desmond, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfocused
Adjective
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Over the course of a few hours in Washington on Tuesday, the increasingly muddled state of public health unfolded.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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This is an impossible task – partly due to Trump’s own muddled thinking – but most importantly, because Putin does not want peace.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Everybody seems bewildered by this news, his own wife most of all.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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Layered in cream, bruised, bewildered, bald.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The same woman who used to have fun behind her camera now seems sleepy, dazed, and even drugged.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
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Some seemed visibly dazed to suddenly be back in their homeland.—
Patrick Oppmann,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Susan Blanchard co-starred as Tina Kelly, his scatterbrained housekeeper.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The novel begins on a Monday afternoon like any other at its three adolescent central characters’ loving but scatterbrained aunt Xía’s house in Miami.—
Juan Vidal,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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An increasing number of boys are lonely, isolated and confused, wrestling with the aftermath of the #MeToo movement and the expectations of rigid masculinity, which has been widely characterized as toxic.—
Don Riddell,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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The young men in Bruins blue and gold staggering off the field afterwards dazed, confused.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Ford went on to explain to the bemused host that Leno owns a host of nifty machines — including several 3D printers.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
13 Sep. 2025
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Audiences bemused, delighted, hoodwinked theatrically, hoodwinked for real.—
Anne Carson,
New Yorker,
21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Back on the domestic front, Jeanine has reason to believe that her husband, Paul (Mark O’Brien), is having an affair with her senile mother’s caregiver.—
Michael Rechtshaffen,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Sep. 2023
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Don Quixote himself is too often a senile dodderer; Daniel Rubin was creaky in body but youthfully quixotic in spirit.—
Jeffrey Gantz,
BostonGlobe.com,
17 Mar. 2023
Adjective
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The fourth episode depicts him as a negligent and emotionally abusive lover to Satan, further connecting him to the show’s previous portrayals of Saddam Hussein.—
Nick Marx,
The Conversation,
11 Sep. 2025
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The woman, referred to as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, is suing Uber for negligence and negligent training and supervision of its drivers.—
Julia Marnin,
Sacbee.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Unfocused.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfocused. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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