short attention span

Example Sentences

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Yes, budgets can be boring, especially to a president with a famously short attention span.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

The stock market behaves a lot like a toddler: a short attention span, active imagination and some irrational fears.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Americans are an impatient people; we have a short attention span.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2025

"That phrase stuck with me. I've got a very short attention span I think."

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2025

The family then moved back to Britain, where Mack grew up in Aberdeen, and became a scientist, a tinkerer, a great piano player, with a bit of a short attention span himself.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel