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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

She stood up Lyubomirov again and again, blaming her busy schedule, her absent-mindedness.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 5, 2018

When Reagan announced his Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis in 1994, there was much speculation that the absent-mindedness and detachment he sometimes exhibited before leaving office in 1989 may have been early signs of the condition.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2018

Some of the work of the detectives was to handle simple absent-mindedness.

From Slate • Jun. 12, 2017

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