Example Sentences

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When my daughter was just a few months old, I told my husband about my newfound absent-mindedness.

From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2021

Carlos Rivera tells fondly of his cousin’s absent-mindedness, epitomized by the time Edgar realized that one of his savings certificates was missing.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2019

In my visit with Tao, I noticed only one way in which he conforms to the math-­professor stereotype: an absent-mindedness that dates to his childhood.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2015

We have shown that the comic character always errs through obstinacy of mind or of disposition, through absent-mindedness, in short, through automatism.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2015

They are symptoms of absent-mindedness in a writer who has forgotten that he should be staging an event for the reader.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker