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also unfocussed
as in muddled
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Recent Examples of unfocused
The scripts honestly don’t have a clue who Jake is, and Law’s performance is thoroughly unfocused, if emotionally persuasive at moments.
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
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
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
The focus group for Bobby’s beer is similarly unfocused.
—Genevieve Koski, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2025
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
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
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
The focus group for Bobby’s beer is similarly unfocused.
—Genevieve Koski, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfocused
Adjective
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The muddled sound, uncharacteristic for this venue, didn’t help matters.—
Ross Raihala,
Twin Cities,
11 Oct. 2025
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Swift shows off the practical sets in behind-the-scenes rehearsal footage in The Official Release Party of a Showgirl, but fans spent the weekend pointing out strange inconsistencies in these door videos that line up with telltale signs of AI art like muddled writing and weird physics.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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As Friday’s stabbing incident involving NFL alum Mark Sanchez slowly comes into focus, the team at Fox Sports seems to be just as bewildered as the rest of us.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
5 Oct. 2025
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Hair disheveled, a dazed and bewildered look in his eyes, the coach trudged into his own dressing room to regroup and get a rundown of a growing list of injuries.—
Mike Jones,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Philadelphia’s defense seemed dazed and ill-prepared for Dart’s precision, composure and dual-threat ability.—
Andy Behrens,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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With scraggly hair and beard and a dazed countenance of man waking up from an unspeakable dream, Reeves brings the tender vulnerability to his Estragon (aka Gogo).—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
29 Sep. 2025
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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
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Tibbetts looked confused by the ejection and didn’t leave the court immediately, appearing to ask another official, Tim Greene, what happened.—
Ben Pickman,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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About 20 mins later, our son woke up, confused and looking for his daddy.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Many of the British people in the audience were left bemused.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
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My cousins rose to greet me and my mother, and for a second we were all bemused.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 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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Tole and his attorneys allege civil counts of assault/battery and negligent hiring, retention and supervision.—
Jacob Lev,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
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When he was arrested on a charges of negligent homicide and reckless operation of a vehicle, police also sought charges of felony hit and run.—
Deena Zaru,
ABC News,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Unfocused.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfocused. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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