preoccupied
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Since the 2000s the city's planners have been preoccupied with building more utilitarian infrastructure, with new sea bridges and coastal roads, radically transforming how the city looks today.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Yet Americans seem to have gotten less worried about nuclear weapons since the Cold War: A Pew poll last year found a public preoccupied by terrorism, climate change, pandemics, and other issues.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026
Maybe I’m betraying my hopeless rationalism, but if I learned of the reality of time travel and “aerial spirits,” I’d be a little more preoccupied by it than Iris seems to be.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
China is struggling to maintain its annual growth target of 5% and is preoccupied with exporting its excess production.
From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026
He was far too preoccupied with himself and his herring to notice that his students were no longer in the nursery.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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