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distracts
verb as in divert attention; confuse
Strong matches
Example Sentences
We love to laugh at Kim and Company because it distracts our souls from the horrific reality of their hermetic regime.
To announce that ten thousand “troops” are to be sent abroad distracts from the living reality of what is going on.
In the comics, Eugene says it distracts from his intelligence because apparently people still hate nerds after the apocalypse.
We focus on an issue until another shiny object—or a piece of string—distracts us.
In fact, racial profiling distracts the TSA from identifying more likely potential threats.
Nothing distracts them from their aim; they never lose sight of the diploma that will be their bread-winner.
Abram and Sarai were sorrowful, yet their seed became as sand of the sea, and distracts the politics of Europe at this moment.
Once he is tempted to hear some fine music—it distracts his attention—he foregoes the music.
It distracts her forces, and prevents her from acting with her full weight in the affairs of her own quarter of the world.
Certain wild chimeras haunt me, Jealousy doth tear my heart, And despairing love distracts me.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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