distractor
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If your chosen distractor keeps you awake, try something else.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2022
Though the positive association was strong, it eventually wore off: After visiting dozens of flowers the caffeinated bees started investigating the distractor flowers too, and Arnold points to the laboratory setup as one cause.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 28, 2021
Sure enough, Arnold’s group approached and took down the distractor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2020
In the car, it is a navigator, a radio, a nagging distractor and a ready accessory to manslaughter; at work, it is both a vigilant assistant and an eager fellow shirker.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2018
At length Williams was banished as a distractor of the public peace, but a popular uproar attended his departure, and the greater part of the inhabitants were with difficulty dissuaded from following him.
From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Warburton
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