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Example sentences for: preoccupied

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They seem to have been much more preoccupied with a certain black football player's murder trial.
While conceding these factors were at work, they insisted that much of the slump had far shallower roots--that it was the avoidable consequence of an excessively conservative monetary policy, one preoccupied with conventional standards of soundness when what the economy really needed was to roll the printing presses.
Ten interpreters stepped from behind the throne.The English one at last explained the Holy FatherHad urged us all to wear seatbelts while driving.My heart sank at its plain good sense, as hymnsEchoed and golden canopies enfolded the pope,How like home it seemed, with my own fatherA preoccupied patriarch of practicalityWhen what was wanted veered wildly betweenThe gruff headmaster and the drunken playwright.Instead, I got the distant advertising salesman,The suburban dad of what turned out to be my dreams ...
As a writer and director, he has been less preoccupied with gags than with the fear and helplessness out of which they spring.
Playing off yesterday's front-page WSJ story reporting that Barbie is scheduled for breast reduction ("Today's Papers" missed that one, being too preoccupied with other pressing Barbie news), USAT assigns seven reporters to the story.