absentminded
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Cheese crackers, deeply toasty and meant for absentminded snacking.
From Salon • Dec. 23, 2025
How nervy — or maybe just absentminded — to rep the Chiefs in this Philadelphia suburb.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2023
Black voters outside the South, however, will remind an absentminded nation that black voters in no one state speak for the group as a whole.
From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2020
Now, she is a very absentminded child who forgets things and loses things ALL THE TIME.
From Slate • May 21, 2015
Charlie was absentminded at dinner, worried over something at work, I guessed, or maybe a basketball game, or maybe he was just really enjoying the lasagna — it was hard to tell with Charlie.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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