preoccupied
Example Sentences
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“It’s obvious that she is good at it and works hard at it, but she’s just preoccupied with ensuring that there’s funds so her siblings can reunite with her mom.”
From Los Angeles Times
“Bigger is not always better and becoming preoccupied with quarterly profits and the stock price over creativity speaks to problems at most big corporations in America,” Drexler said.
A “salon” of multiple smaller works introduced each section, enlarging on Mr. Whitney’s shift from gatherings of blunt, sometimes layered, rounded forms to the abutments of rectangles that have preoccupied him since the 1990s.
The trend is worth monitoring even for investors not so preoccupied with the Big Tech trade, because the largest technology stocks have an outsize impact on the S&P 500’s SPX performance.
From MarketWatch
Mac Allister was unable to do this as he was preoccupied with the player he was designated to mark.
From BBC
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