distraction
Example Sentences
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It’s cute, fun to drive and made by a company whose leadership isn’t as bogged down with robots, robotaxis and other potential distractions.
Foreign policy analysts would normally consider distraction to be a lazy and unprofessional explanation for major actions like wars, if not a symptom of paranoid conspiracy thinking.
From Salon
The ATP rulebook states that any distractions caused by a player "result in the loss of a point" regardless of if the hindrance was intentional or unintentional.
From BBC
Seeing the movie in a hushed theater is ideal; viewing it at home would almost certainly bring in distractions that would dilute the experience.
He revealed his wife was pregnant after leaving the I'm A Celebrity jungle last December, calling the news "a healthy distraction" and "partly healing".
From BBC
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