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Example sentences for: inattention

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Examples of Reagan's forgetfulness and inattention are frequent.
During his conferences (lectures), their inattention was hurting their apprenticeship (learning of the subject matter).
Sometimes it is a clear-cut matter of fatigue or inattention, speaking trippingly, without attending to meaning.
But the paper squanders a bit of this edge when it writes that the situation in East Timor "has for two decades remained a largely invisible problem closed off to journalists, and the scene of some of the world's worst reported human rights abuses," thus falsely suggesting that poor coverage of the topic was somehow mostly caused by something other than press inattention.
David Ignatius, in his WP column, identifies what he calls our tendency toward "sequential hysteria," the phenomenon in which a problem is well recognized long before it reaches a critical stage, then for a few brief days it becomes Topic A, but then before long it's back to inattention, all without anything ever really being done about it.