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How nervy — or maybe just absentminded — to rep the Chiefs in this Philadelphia suburb.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2023

I let them think I was an absentminded and irresponsible pre-teen.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2017

If you're as absentminded as me, there is every danger of leaving it on a train or in a taxi.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2014

And of course, like the absentminded, idealistic Jiro, Miyazaki would grow up to become a kind of professional dreamer, a single-minded creator of beautiful, intricate things.

From Slate • Feb. 20, 2014

He had none of the vagueness or the apologetic awkwardness that one usually associates with untidy, absentminded men.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy




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