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- adjective Alternative form of
distractible .
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Examples
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I would submit there is no such thing as a "distractable" medium, just distractable people?
Bookstores Begin Slow Descent Into Obsolescence - Publishing 2.0 2007
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I am extremely distractable: I generally write on an Alphasmart Dana (a little Palm-OS based writing computer) and got one without wifi on purpose, because if I had one with wifi, I could not write anywhere where wifi was available.
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I've just become more distractable as I get older and don't finish a lot of books I've started.
Cyndere's Midnight nissa_amas_katoj 2009
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I've just become more distractable as I get older and don't finish a lot of books I've started.
Archive 2009-02-01 nissa_amas_katoj 2009
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But that compared to my normal, ADD and distractable, self.
The New Yorker on the underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs. - Boing Boing 2009
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Wonderful possibilities await -- if you believe that the person next to you isn't a distractable dolt but instead someone with unmet potential.
Jeff Jarvis: The Distraction Trope Jeff Jarvis 2011
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As distractable as my friend, Natalie, and I are, though, we often start a walk and 4 hours later, we have only covered a quarter of the territory we were supposed to cover in 1 hour!
What to Do in Paris / Que faire a Paris? - French Word-A-Day 2009
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Wonderful possibilities await -- if you believe that the person next to you isn't a distractable dolt but instead someone with unmet potential.
Jeff Jarvis: The Distraction Trope Jeff Jarvis 2011
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Does the iPad accelerate the mental change you write about and make us more distractable?
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Does the iPad accelerate the mental change you write about and make us more distractable?
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