multitask
Example Sentences
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This means resisting the urge to take a phone call on a walk, listen to a podcast in the car or otherwise multitask while doing simple things.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
It’s also working on a more powerful pair of AR glasses that lets people take video calls, get recipe recommendations and multitask in other ways.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025
The problem was that Remi struggled to multitask.
From Slate • Jan. 27, 2024
Don’t try to multitask and rapidly soap up the colander between peeling potatoes.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023
Dr. Strayer wanted the emerging field of research to also answer another question: Why, given it was becoming clear that the brain faced limitations, were people continuing to multitask, particularly in challenging, even dangerous, situations?
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
