absent-minded

Example Sentences

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Many women talk about having "pregnancy brain" or "baby brain", to describe feeling forgetful, absent-minded or having brain fog.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2024

He has avoided making absent-minded decisions for the most part.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 8, 2023

Musgrove and catcher Austin Nola were among five absent-minded Padres who mistakenly headed toward the dugout with two outs.

From Washington Times • May 14, 2023

I apologize and say that I'm an absent-minded English teacher who left his glasses at home.

From Salon • Aug. 27, 2022

But he was absent-minded, unable to remember the one thing which he ought to have told his pupil, and he listened to their difficulties with an impatient ear.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White