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Recent Examples of distrait Roman bored, Kendall oddly distrait. Hunter Harris, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2021
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Adjective
  • That’s why, in the final minutes of the team’s home finale last month, agitated fans at Soldier Field serenaded McCaskey and his family with an impassioned request.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2025
  • In the middle of the party, an accordion player jigged among a group of young, unsteady revelers, rapping to the beat like an agitated auctioneer.
    Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The video also captures a distraught women yelling into her cellphone, apparently devastated by the destruction.
    Tara Prindiville, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • There’s also a troubling recurrent theme of angry, violent, and/or distraught mothers, who we are asked to watch suffer or inflict suffering on others time and time again.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The quick minute-and-a-half clip introduces us to a frantic Mullen, who's testing different codes on a safe to try and break into it.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • McConnell remembers strangers stopping in the road to pray for the boy before he was rushed to Children’s Hospital New Orleans after a police officer assured the frantic mother that her son was still alive.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Few folks are worried about how the yard looks, but Travis Hogan has a keen interest in green grass in January.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Jan. 2025
  • But the more time Zuckerberg spends in Mar-a-Lago, the more Sam Altman and Tim Cook should be worried.
    Alex Heath, The Verge, 12 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • For the 34th time in two years cops have been called by frightened neighbors or Hollis herself to quell the volcanic quarrels inside Peppermill Apartments unit B-312.
    Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
  • My friends were confused by my abrupt stop and the frightened and befuddled look on my face — except for one, whose eyes were also bulging wide.
    Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024

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“Distrait.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distrait. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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