Examples of inattention in a Sentence
Many traffic accidents are the result of driver inattention.
They lost several potential clients through their inattention to detail.
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The surveys also tested the participants’ psychopathologies, including their risk of common mental health conditions and of specific symptoms, like fear, fatigue, sleeplessness, and inattention.
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Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2025
The second Trump administration inherits these contradictory tendencies of attention and inattention.
—Ken Opalo, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2024
But this isn’t new: Environmentalists have had a deep legacy of inattention, or agnosticism, to the question of race.
—Jerel Ezell, Time, 22 Apr. 2025
It's thought that morning people act with more awareness because of their tendency to sleep better and have less fatigue or inattention.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
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Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2025
The second Trump administration inherits these contradictory tendencies of attention and inattention.
—Ken Opalo, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2024
But this isn’t new: Environmentalists have had a deep legacy of inattention, or agnosticism, to the question of race.
—Jerel Ezell, Time, 22 Apr. 2025
It's thought that morning people act with more awareness because of their tendency to sleep better and have less fatigue or inattention.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Inattention.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inattention. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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inattention
noun
in·at·ten·tion
ˌin-ə-ˈten-chən 
: failure to pay attention
inattentively
adverb
inattentiveness
noun
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