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as in diverting
to draw the attention or mind to something else
we were distracted from our discussion by the noise outside
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as in bothering
to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy
distracted by the looming tax deadline
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Recent Examples of distracting
John Archer, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
The boy’s life is organized around distracting himself, especially since his mother (Jodie Whittaker) works long days and nights as a nurse.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2024
Using gentle pressure, it’s designed to help reduce tension and block out distracting light.
—Malia Griggs, SELF, 16 Oct. 2024
Project Clean Machine is aimed at removing distracting flashes and correcting overexposed frames in footage.
—Prakhar Khanna, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
Consider also taking out your earbuds and turning off any distracting music or podcasts.
—Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
The downside is that the cutout might seem cheesy, possibly distracting.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
Traditionally, legal actions have been time consuming, expensive, and distracting.
—Stephen Heitkamp
sean West, Harvard Business Review, 3 Oct. 2024
Let’s focus on our school’s most critical needs by avoiding distracting topics.
—Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
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This also avoids a brightness instability problem that can afflict the TV’s Standard mode, where the image suffers distracting brightness ‘jumps’ or ‘drops’ when an HDR image cuts abruptly between bright and dark shots.
—John Archer, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
The boy’s life is organized around distracting himself, especially since his mother (Jodie Whittaker) works long days and nights as a nurse.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2024
Using gentle pressure, it’s designed to help reduce tension and block out distracting light.
—Malia Griggs, SELF, 16 Oct. 2024
Project Clean Machine is aimed at removing distracting flashes and correcting overexposed frames in footage.
—Prakhar Khanna, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
Consider also taking out your earbuds and turning off any distracting music or podcasts.
—Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
The downside is that the cutout might seem cheesy, possibly distracting.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
Traditionally, legal actions have been time consuming, expensive, and distracting.
—Stephen Heitkamp
sean West, Harvard Business Review, 3 Oct. 2024
Let’s focus on our school’s most critical needs by avoiding distracting topics.
—Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for distracting
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To-date, the brand has bought back 11,000 items, diverting 17,000 pounds of clothing from landfills.Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 4 Oct. 2024
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This piece of tech reduces the sniper’s signature by muffling or diverting the sound (some can divert them 90 degrees away from the barrel) and also reduces muzzle flash.Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
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Is the trend of sales taking a route that is bothering you?Hitendra Patil, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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In many cases, states have stopped bothering to make legal justifications at all, the Human Rights Committee report warned.Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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Making sense of what the affable and passionate Che is up to at his tiny restaurant can be perplexing.Matthew Odam, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Nov. 2024
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Pope No position encapsulates Newcastle’s perplexing summer better than the incomplete reshuffling of the goalkeeper department.Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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The most puzzling reveal was a new suspect sketch, reportedly drawn early in 2017.Aja Romano, Vox, 11 Nov. 2024
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These conflicting versions created a puzzling cognitive dissonance.Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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In either scenario, referring to them as a black box would still be inaccurate.Cody Greco, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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But information in background checks can be inaccurate, raising unfair hurdles for renters, advocates say.Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2024
Verb
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The hilarity of people worrying about toy safety/propriety is timeless.Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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Of course, the relationship could be less about the oil price itself and more about investors worrying over the burgeoning conflict between Iran and Israel.Jesse Pound, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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Things to Come was directed by legendary production designer William Cameron Menzies, who later designed the burning of Atlanta in Gone with the Wind and clearly influenced Coppola’s skyscraper imagery and his bewildering mix of futurism and antiquity.Armond White, National Review, 9 Oct. 2024
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For Leifer, the irony—that Jews, who had long been pressured by the right to police anti-Zionism, now faced pressure from the left to disavow Zionism in any form—was bewildering.Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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And when Reuters reported in April that Tesla had canceled plans for a $25,000 EV to focus on its robotaxi, Musk said the article was incorrect.Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 6 Nov. 2024
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But that hasn’t quieted Burgess, who says incorrect voter data wound up in the new system.Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2024
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“Distracting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distracting. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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