noun
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Origin of woolgathering
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But such are the longueurs of this would-be slam-bang blockbuster directed by Robert Schwentke, that it sure does inspire woolgathering.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
I listened to their woolgathering for a while, and then some artillery rumbled in the distance.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2014
Most people spend between 30 and 47 percent of their waking hours spacing out, drifting off, lost in thought, woolgathering, in a brown study or building castles in the air.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 22, 2014
The son of Rumanian immigrants, he was a shy, woolgathering boy who finished Samuel J. Tilden High School with a so-so 82% academic average.
From Time Magazine Archive
The train lurched over a patch of rough tracks, jarring me out of my woolgathering.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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