abstractedly
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Many mourners ponder, even if only abstractedly, their reason for living.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 7, 2011
Burly, hunched Ernst Reuter still sat in his center loge, his eyes bright, abstractedly beating time with nicotine-stained forefinger to some passage of the music that had died.
From Time Magazine Archive
A creased, dirty raincoat is his unvarying costume; he wanders abstractedly, clutching a camera and a sackful of pointless documents.
From Time Magazine Archive
And occasionally Oates will let all his defenses collapse, as when GTO sits in a North Carolina roadside diner and abstractedly orders "champagne and caviar and chicken sandwiches on toast."
From Time Magazine Archive
I looked at him abstractedly, seeing how the light caught on his wrinkled forehead, his snowy hair.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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