lose track
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Wigler noted that the promise of hitting goals fast with AI tempts tech start-up teams already prone to long workdays to lose track of time and stay on the job even deeper into the night.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
Pasricha added that smartphone apps are designed to capture attention and make it easy to lose track of time.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026
Some people have difficulty managing multiple accounts held at differing institutions and people do lose track.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 15, 2026
As more instructions, conversations and history piled in, the model had more to retain—making it easier to lose track of goals, priorities and guardrails.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
G.G.'s husband died of a heart attack on his sixty-sixth birthday and she started to lose track of things after that.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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