Thesaurus / preoccupied
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Zoologist Desmond Morris, on the other hand, was initially more preoccupied with sex than violence or male-male bonding.
TARZAN WASN’T FOR HER - ISSUE 100: OUTSIDERSERIKA LORRAINE MILAMJUNE 2, 2021NAUTILUSGenerations of men would have the culture believe that they’re far too preoccupied with business, government, technology and other so-called serious pursuits to involve themselves with the flourishes of fashion.
WHY THE TAILORED SUIT — NOT RUFFLES AND LACE — BECAME SYNONYMOUS WITH POWERROBIN GIVHANMAY 21, 2021WASHINGTON POSTLater, as the scope of his research widened, he became more and more preoccupied with the question of biodiversity on Earth and the human impact on it.
TIMELESS MEDITATIONS ON EARTH’S FRAGILITY, AND THE DAMAGE HUMANS DOBALAJI RAVICHANDRANMAY 14, 2021WASHINGTON POSTKids are very preoccupied about their appearance at this age, and there’s a lot of pressure to have peer approval, so there are risks there.
NO, KIDS DON’T NEED INSTAGRAMKRISTA LANGLOISMAY 14, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEI’m very much preoccupied with the issue of race and ethnicity and discrimination and how that impacts health outcomes and mental health outcomes among underserved populations.
HOW TO GET VACCINES TO PEOPLE WHO AREN’T GOING OUT OF THEIR WAY TO GET THEMANNA ROTHSCHILDMARCH 22, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTIn fact, she became so preoccupied with the last that at age 11, Deming wrote to renowned molecular biologist Cynthia Kenyon, asking if she could visit Kenyon’s San Francisco lab during a family trip.
LAURA DEMING, FREDERIK GROCE, AMISH JANI, JESSICA VERRILLI AND VANESSA LARCO ARE COMING TO DISRUPTCONNIE LOIZOSAUGUST 28, 2020TECHCRUNCHShe was still preoccupied, still she seemed to see Hamza running beside her towards the mountains, praying among the rocks.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENSShe was like a woman who is preoccupied with something, and perhaps annoyed by an unwelcome guest.
CAMILLE (LA DAME AUX CAMILIAS)ALEXANDRE DUMAS, FILSThere was something very strange and preoccupied in his movements, Beardsley thought, more than a mere tiredness.
WE'RE FRIENDS, NOWHENRY HASSEThey swarmed with people of all nationalities, who looked very much preoccupied, and as if in search of something.
THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKYWORDS RELATED TO PREOCCUPIED
- absorbed
- analytical
- attentive
- brainy
- calculating
- cerebral
- cogitative
- deep
- deliberative
- discerning
- earnest
- engrossed
- farsighted
- grave
- intellectual
- intent
- keen
- levelheaded
- logical
- lost in thought
- meditative
- melancholy
- museful
- musing
- pensive
- philosophic
- pondering
- preoccupied
- rapt
- rational
- reasonable
- reasoning
- reflecting
- reflective
- retrospective
- ruminative
- serious
- sober
- studious
- subjective
- thinking
- wise
- wistful
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