forgetful
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He’s raced to find ivory shoes for a forgetful groomsman and led a prayer to calm a jittery future husband.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
"Pregnancy places a huge metabolic load on your body," she says, "so you may have less energy and less sleep and feel less alert and forgetful."
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
With each passing year, I see and hear the patient’s spiral of worry: Am I getting more forgetful?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2024
Instagram and Snapchat were just two of the many platforms that had pledged to help forgetful, regretful netizens save their nominally temporary posts as long-lasting memories.
From Slate • Oct. 6, 2024
A forgetful programmer might make it count from one to nine, yielding only nine steps instead of ten.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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