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
For most people, it’s the sort of thing best left to the world of American Cornball, a comic prop that’s forever landing on the head of an absentminded professor.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2014
He was that kind of kid, absentminded, and very smart, and later in life he became a chemist.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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