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preoccupied
adjective as in busy; mentally caught up in something
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Example Sentences
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.
Mac Allister was unable to do this as he was preoccupied with the player he was designated to mark.
It seemed as if the little rodent was preoccupied.
Penelope was far too preoccupied with worry to notice how the five ga-dongs made a perfect line of iambic pentameter, which only goes to show how extremely worried she was.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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