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
She's spacy, a little absentminded, incapable of keeping a diary or remembering the names of books she loves, and cites sleeping and chainwatching TV as among her favourite activities.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2013
I have never felt like this—slow-witted and languorous, dreamy, absentminded, forgetful, focused only on each moment as it comes.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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