absentminded
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She has a ring on a chain around her neck that she absentmindedly pulls, almost as though she’s got herself on a leash.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
"You can't run with a pram. That's the thing that really hit me," says her friend Jane Zhou with tears in her eyes, one hand absentmindedly stroking her own three-month-old baby.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2024
This will lead to more time spent cleaning, as you will have to double your efforts in any spaces where cleaning opportunities may have absentmindedly been missed.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2023
I should have brought Purell to clean his hands, I thought absentmindedly, the mundane intruding on the life-or-death.
From Salon • Jul. 2, 2022
She’d done it absentmindedly, her focus on Marisol.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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