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absentminded



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Cheese crackers, deeply toasty and meant for absentminded snacking.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

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

Was she absentminded because she was thinking about her student?

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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