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The court was told Bingham had been distracted by another friend when Tara Wright had been warned not to get behind the wheel, and he was not fully aware of her fitness to drive.

From BBC

Last week, Bowser said she would remove it because “we can’t afford to be distracted by meaningless congressional interference. The devastating impacts of the federal job cuts must be our No. 1 concern.”

Sometimes I’ve experimented with finely minced, sautéed garlic and onion mixed into the ground meat, but that can be distracting — most people prefer onions on top of a burger, not inside it.

From Salon

Mitzi Roberts testified that the wife was so distracted that she nearly missed the exit from Target, showing jurors a security video on a large courtroom screen.

An unnamed UAE official said that "the allegations presented by the SAF representative at the ICJ lack any legal or factual basis, representing yet another attempt to distract from this calamitous war".

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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