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Recent Examples of inattentive
The bike path runs through the crosswalks, and disabled or slow-moving pedestrians, or those who are simply inattentive, will have to contend with riders zinging through at high speed.
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Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 30 Apr. 2026
Production designer Nikhil Kovale and his team followed, and the background extras were coached in the inattentive, overlapping business of real hearings rather than the rapt pantomime standard to Bollywood courtroom scenes.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
In theory, shuffled cards with accompanying patter should boost the chances of volunteers losing sight of their target thanks to the psychological effect known as inattentive blindness.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 Apr. 2026
Miami, which lost for the seventh time in eight games, again was slow and passive and inattentive defensively, permitting the Pacers to shoot 58 percent overall and 46 percent (18 for 39) on threes.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
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Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 30 Apr. 2026
Production designer Nikhil Kovale and his team followed, and the background extras were coached in the inattentive, overlapping business of real hearings rather than the rapt pantomime standard to Bollywood courtroom scenes.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
In theory, shuffled cards with accompanying patter should boost the chances of volunteers losing sight of their target thanks to the psychological effect known as inattentive blindness.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 Apr. 2026
Miami, which lost for the seventh time in eight games, again was slow and passive and inattentive defensively, permitting the Pacers to shoot 58 percent overall and 46 percent (18 for 39) on threes.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inattentive
Adjective
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This emphasis on wholesome working-class respectability is heedless of the ’60s rushing toward them, a decade that, by 1958, the other counselors have prematurely embraced.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
18 May 2026
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Humanity is heedless of all the clutter in those bands.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
16 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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There’s something winningly absent-minded about Gosling’s performance here.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
20 Mar. 2026
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The show offered her five more episodes—her rent for the year—and the absent-minded waitress became a recurring character named Ursula.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Unlike last year, when advocacy groups on both sides staged more visible demonstrations, the off-track theatrics were largely absent.—
Marisa Ingemi,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2026
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With several top names currently absent, Thekla has become a force at the top of the card and deserves her Wembley moment.—
Rob Wolkenbrod,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
Adjective
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Stolen bases, once treated as a reckless relic of the uneducated past, are at levels not seen since the freewheeling 1980s.—
Chad Jennings,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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The animals help Tim, who proves uneducated in the methods of deduction, investigate a series of local suspects portrayed by Molly Gordon, Hong Chau, Emma Thompson, Kobna Holbrook-Smith, Nicholas Galitzine, Tosin Cole and Conleth Hill, among others.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
7 May 2026
Adjective
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Some rooms have mural-like headboards with abstracted views of Philly neighborhoods or custom light fixtures inspired by Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod experiments.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 May 2026
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As materials pass through hubs like Singapore, their origins often become increasingly abstracted.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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When Obama met Trump for a ritual pre-Inauguration visit to the Oval Office, he was struck by how unschooled and incurious the President-elect was.—
Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Mata was also concerned about how the data failed to display how INA staff works with the lowest English proficiency students in the district — specifically those who are unschooled, and oftentimes refugees who have just entered the country.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Still, with this inspirational true story, the streamer stands to reach a much wider public than Perry’s typical audience, reminding how much of American history remains untaught and largely untold.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
6 Dec. 2024
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Until recent years, the story of how this period affected California’s Indigenous peoples had largely gone untaught or underrecognized.—
Anne Wallentine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 June 2024
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“Inattentive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inattentive. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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