busyness

Example Sentences

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I think of an anecdote in sociologist Liah Greenfeld’s prescient 2005 paper, “When the Sky Is the Limit: Busyness in Contemporary American Society.”

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2024

Google says that Area Busyness will be rolling out globally on Android and iOS “in time for this holiday season.”

From The Verge • Nov. 16, 2021

Busyness may have become a modern badge of honor, but that doesn’t mean it’s good for us.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2019

Busyness is a virtue, so people are terrified of hearing they may have empty time, as Time Kreider wrote in “The ‘Busy’ Trap.”

From Slate • Mar. 24, 2014

We are born Confaederats, mutually to help One another, therefor appropriated in the Body Politic, to this, or that Busyness, as our Members are in the Natural to perform their separat Offices.

From 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation by Pahl, Gretchen Graf