distract

“But if there’s a Band-Aid put on it in the short term or we get distracted by something so-called ‘good,’ it worries me for how bad it could be in the future.

A Russian spy ship is on the edge of UK waters north of Scotland and has pointed lasers to distract pilots of surveillance aircraft monitoring its activities, the defence secretary has said.

The creature is crouched by the sofa, distracted by something, by … pizza?

But Master Gogolev was too distracted by his own troubles to give a lesson on Hamlet.

“And no more birthday parties, I’m afraid. The trustees feel they are too distracting.”