distract
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This is where Howe has previously come into his own, and Hopkinson maintained "we are not distracting ourselves with speculation about what we may or may not do in the summer".
From BBC
But he’s wary of getting distracted from other areas of his business.
She came to visit once or twice, always at an inconvenient time, and after her distracted daughter snapped at her during finals week junior year, she didn’t try to visit again.
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“All of your teachers have said that you seem distracted, and you haven’t been to lunchtime study hall in weeks.”
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At this point, spirits were usually so distraught and distracted by their own eternal fate that they did not notice anything about him.
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