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Recent Examples of inattentive
The results, published this week in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, says that lead exposure from car exhaust during children’s early development has made generations of Americans more depressed, anxious, inattentive and hyperactive.
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Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024
Advertisement Dobbs did all this without looking flustered by the pass rush or inattentive to the proper passing progression.
—Tim Kawakami, The Athletic, 19 Aug. 2024
As for Apple Intelligence, being inattentive to disability vis-a-vis accessibility to instead push a juicy, fatalistic narrative about Apple playing catchup isn’t happenstance either.
—Steven Aquino, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
In many cases, voters did not even bother to read the names on the ballots, enabling some unscrupulous politicos to use their opponents’ symbols to trick inattentive voters.
—Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
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Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024
Advertisement Dobbs did all this without looking flustered by the pass rush or inattentive to the proper passing progression.
—Tim Kawakami, The Athletic, 19 Aug. 2024
As for Apple Intelligence, being inattentive to disability vis-a-vis accessibility to instead push a juicy, fatalistic narrative about Apple playing catchup isn’t happenstance either.
—Steven Aquino, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
In many cases, voters did not even bother to read the names on the ballots, enabling some unscrupulous politicos to use their opponents’ symbols to trick inattentive voters.
—Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inattentive
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To this day, heedless shootings at parades are not unheard of in the Big Easy.Maurice Carlos Ruffin, TIME, 3 Jan. 2025
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The gunman raised the weapon, heedless of a woman standing nearby on the sidewalk.Maria Cramer, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2024
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For Walton, Candide represents an innocent, sometimes absent-minded, young individual who doesn’t know anything about the world—or really that much about himself.Miguel Sirgado, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
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That rule is forgiving to absent-minded voters, but slows tallying because those ballots still need to go through signature checks and other processes.Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2024
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Aside from a few minor announcements, mobile phone makers and their products were largely absent from CES.Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 10 Jan. 2025
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Predictions of a downturn, once omnipresent, were mostly absent from the year-ahead forecasts that major financial firms typically send around to clients over the holidays.Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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So Americans who don't travel, who 80 percent don't have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
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So, Americans who don’t travel, who 80 percent don’t have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naïveté.James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2024
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The show’s overall environment was more akin to an abstracted living room than a standard runway setup.Lauren Vaccaro, Architectural Digest, 28 Nov. 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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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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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 17 Jan. 2025.
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