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Example sentences for: distraction

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Distraction.
No one returning from a day at work or rushing through all the errands crammed into a weekend can imagine coping with a child's demands for distraction without recourse to the boob tube.
Or so the story says, quoting five experts in support along the way, before swerving abruptly to a "to be sure" 11th paragraph that says Y2K preparedness "posed an enormous distraction, soaking up time and money that might have been plowed into projects with a more immediate payoff," and that "much of the investment went to inoculate older technology against the computer bug rather than to embrace the newest processes that could revolutionize the way work is done."
(One wishes the LAT had noted here that Washington produced virtually no non-budgetary legislation last year even without such a distraction.)
The ambiguity resulting from the conjunction of black and gold is akin to the distraction caused by optical illusions: Lehrer's phrase is both literally correct and literally nonsense.