See distract on Wiktionary
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"text": "The crowd was distracted by a helicopter hovering over the stadium when the only goal of the game was scored.",
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"ref": "2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1-0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:",
"text": "While Gunners boss Arsene Wenger had warned his players against letting the pre-match festivities distract them from the task at hand, they clearly struggled for fluency early on.",
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"ref": "2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:",
"text": "Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.",
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"ref": "2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65:",
"text": "I eschew the idea of plugging in my laptop to take notes and resort to old-fashioned pen and paper instead, so that I can enjoy more of the view and not be distracted by bashing a keyboard.",
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"word": "fikrini yayındırmaq"
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"sense": "To divert the attention of"
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"roman": "hisíakh et hadá'at",
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"word": "気をそらす"
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"ref": "1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 2:",
"text": "By Heav’ns, ſuch Virtues, join’d with ſuch Succeſs,\nDiſtract my very Soul: Our Father’s Fortune\nWou’d almoſt tempt us to renounce his Precepts.",
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"sense": "To divert the attention of",
"word": "fikrini yayındırmaq"
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"sense": "To divert the attention of",
"word": "分心"
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"sense": "To divert the attention of",
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"sense": "To divert the attention of",
"word": "afleiden"
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"sense": "To divert the attention of"
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"sense": "To divert the attention of",
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"sense": "To divert the attention of",
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"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "To divert the attention of",
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"sense": "To divert the attention of",
"word": "ablenken"
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"sense": "To divert the attention of",
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"sense": "To divert the attention of",
"word": "fipa"
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"word": "distraktar"
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"word": "amuzar"
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"sense": "To divert the attention of",
"word": "気をそらす"
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"sense": "To divert the attention of",
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"sense": "To divert the attention of",
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "To divert the attention of",
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"sense": "To divert the attention of",
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"ref": "c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 274, column 2:",
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"ref": "1612, Michael Drayton, “The Sixt Song”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 90:",
"text": "Alone ſhee beeing left the ſpoyle of loue and death, / In labour of her griefe outrageouſly diſtract, / The utmoſt of her ſpleene on her falſe Lord to act […]",
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