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Many cities submitted petitions to an inattentive Parliament.
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Devoney Looser, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
Research shows that girls with ADHD more often display inattentive symptoms along with characteristics not traditionally associated with ADHD, such as shyness, perfectionism and eating disorders.
—Kate Harrington, The Conversation, 25 July 2024
Numerous graduates said their own experiences in homeless shelters or with inattentive social workers motivated them to pursue careers in the field.
—Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
Tesla has blamed the accidents on inattentive drivers.
—Hyunjoo Jin, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
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Devoney Looser, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
Research shows that girls with ADHD more often display inattentive symptoms along with characteristics not traditionally associated with ADHD, such as shyness, perfectionism and eating disorders.
—Kate Harrington, The Conversation, 25 July 2024
Numerous graduates said their own experiences in homeless shelters or with inattentive social workers motivated them to pursue careers in the field.
—Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
Tesla has blamed the accidents on inattentive drivers.
—Hyunjoo Jin, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inattentive
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For better or for worse, Henri Bendel and the Worlds He Fashioned is a complete story: The book takes us up to 2019, when the store, in the heedless hands of L Brands, closed up shop for good.Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
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Victor approached the table, and began eating the steaks, heedless of the humans shouting and banging pots.Wes Siler, Outside Online, 29 Aug. 2024
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Levey, who didn’t keep documentation of his side of the bartering, acknowledges that a less absent-minded customer would have demanded clearer accounting.Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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The seemingly absent-minded senior only occasionally uses his toy to talk to nurses, who are largely charmed by the mostly mute Dave and his silent doll.Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2024
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Notably, North Carolina is absent from both publicly available lists.Caroline Haskins, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
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That fix is absent from the update advisory page—at least for now.Zak Doffman, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The second group comprises uneducated individuals who engage in daily labor, working on both their own land and the land of others.PhotoVogue, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2024
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If investors remain uneducated about the importance of self-custody, then any increase in demand will be met with an increase in the supply of paper bitcoin (also known as IOUs).Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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Larry Aldrich, the museum’s founder, visited Diamond’s studio in 1972 and subsequently acquired Untitled (1972), one of her early abstracted landscapes, and put it in a group show—marking her first museum acquisition and exhibition.Grace Edquist, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
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The dialectic talk can feel a bit abstracted from politics, as can spotting Marx in every mention of equity.Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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Whether these findings map onto kids who are unschooled in the context of worldschooling remains to be seen without systematic longitudinal studies; anecdotal evidence from the parents in my research suggests mixed results.Jennie Germann Molz, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024
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Some research also suggests that children who are unschooled underperform on academic assessments, particularly regarding reading.Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 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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With #100daysofpractice, the star violinist has drawn back the veil for professionals and amateurs alike on a private, untaught part of musical life.David Allen, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
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“Inattentive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inattentive. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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