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• Have a phone case that you always use so you're less likely to set it down absent-mindedly.
Hemanshu Nigam: Protecting Your Memories by Protecting Your Devices Hemanshu Nigam 2011
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A friend of mine in financial services admitted recently that having vaguely, and absent-mindedly, watched the working classes lose industry after industry, he felt as if he was living in Niemoller's 'First They Came'; there was no one left to speak out for him.
Nick Jefferson: Smile. They Can't Commoditize Creativity. Nick Jefferson 2011
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I thought about how white women absent-mindedly? slide a protective hand over their purse when a black man approaches, or a clerk follows you in a store out of fear you'll steal something, or some of the stark language that members of the "No We're Not Racists" Tea Party use.
Melanie Coffee: My On-Again-Off-Again Relationship With White People Melanie Coffee 2011
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I thought about how white women absent-mindedly? slide a protective hand over their purse when a black man approaches, or a clerk follows you in a store out of fear you'll steal something, or some of the stark language that members of the "No We're Not Racists" Tea Party use.
Melanie Coffee: My On-Again-Off-Again Relationship With White People Melanie Coffee 2011
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I thought about how white women absent-mindedly? slide a protective hand over their purse when a black man approaches, or a clerk follows you in a store out of fear you'll steal something, or some of the stark language that members of the "No We're Not Racists" Tea Party use.
Melanie Coffee: My On-Again-Off-Again Relationship With White People Melanie Coffee 2011
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In fact, Britain has absent-mindedly acquired – relative to its size – more great universities than anywhere else, with 14 of the world's top 100 universities.
The quest for knowledge is good in itself and helps the country thrive 2011
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His wife points out that he has been absent-mindedly wearing two, of different hues.
Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud, by Martin Gayford Laura Cumming 2010
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"He just wanted to come; he just wanted to be here, nothing more," said Winfrey, absent-mindedly laying her hand on Reitman's shoulder.
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Not everyone has the luxury of a full-time blogger — you know, that lazy sonofagun who lays around on the couch all day, absent-mindedly pecking away at his keyboard while eating Cheetohs and watching reruns of Lost and The Office, writing his blog posts as the muse whispers to him in tidbits throughout the day.
How to Write Quality Posts When You Have a Day Job | Write to Done 2009
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Poised between them I share bubble gum toothpaste then absent-mindedly return my brush to its charger. if it is with the heart that one sees most clearly, there can be great accomplishment in the mundane.
BrainyBabe commented on the word absent-mindedly
"A certain City gentleman, a man of exemplary character and simple tastes, modest, retiring, industrious, friend to animals, ex-scoutmaster, and good son to his mother, had absent-mindedly issued to the public an alarming amount of debenture scrip which, through some clerical inadvertence, was worth less than the paper it was printed on." -- ''Yashima, or, The Gorgeous West'' by R T Sherwood, 1931.
December 24, 2008