absent-mindedness
Example Sentences
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Carlos Rivera tells fondly of his cousin’s absent-mindedness, epitomized by the time Edgar realized that one of his savings certificates was missing.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2019
She stood up Lyubomirov again and again, blaming her busy schedule, her absent-mindedness.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 5, 2018
In my visit with Tao, I noticed only one way in which he conforms to the math-professor stereotype: an absent-mindedness that dates to his childhood.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2015
Britain is said to have acquired its empire in a fit of absent-mindedness.
From Slate ● May 3, 2013
They are symptoms of absent-mindedness in a writer who has forgotten that he should be staging an event for the reader.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
