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
Looking professorial in his neat blue suit, Bob Taft was talking matter-of-factly, almost abstractedly, as if he were speaking across a committee table.
From Time Magazine Archive
At one point, an elderly extra, abstractedly scratching her stomach, turned to one of the actresses and said: "Hey, didja ever see so many characters in one place?"
From Time Magazine Archive
When concentrating it was his practice to finger his watch-chain and rummage abstractedly in his watchpocket.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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