lose track of
Example Sentences
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Wigler noted that the promise of hitting goals fast with AI tempts tech start-up teams already prone to long workdays to lose track of time and stay on the job even deeper into the night.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
Pasricha added that smartphone apps are designed to capture attention and make it easy to lose track of time.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026
When a document comes in the mail that you need for taxes, don’t put it in a pile and lose track of it.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026
As more instructions, conversations and history piled in, the model had more to retain—making it easier to lose track of goals, priorities and guardrails.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
When a sentence gets complicated, though, even a literate writer can lose track of how each branch in a coordination harmonizes with the rest of the tree.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
