"distracting" meaning in English

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      "form": "more distracting",
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      "form": "most distracting",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "distractingly"
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        {
          "word": "nondistracting"
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        {
          "ref": "2006, Daniel M. Sturnquist, Mobile Phones and Driving, page 51:",
          "text": "Sending a text message was considered to be the most distracting activity to perform while driving. From the list, the least distracting activity was having a conversation with a passenger.",
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Cheryl Smith ·, Visiting the Dog Park: Having Fun, Staying Safe, page 42:",
          "text": "Whenever you make one aspect of a behavior more difficult (a more distracting environment), you want to make other aspects easier (walking beside the dog rather than twenty feet away).",
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        {
          "ref": "2020, Sharese Dawkins, Do's and Don'ts to a Better Way of Living:",
          "text": "Please don't make a lot of loud, unnecessary noises—slamming the desk or copy machine drawer closed, etc. This is very distracting and rude.",
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        "Causing a distraction; interfering with the ability to concentrate or focus."
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  "word": "distracting"
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  "word": "distracting"
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      "word": "distractingly"
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      "word": "nondistracting"
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      "form": "more distracting",
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        },
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          "ref": "2007, Cheryl Smith ·, Visiting the Dog Park: Having Fun, Staying Safe, page 42:",
          "text": "Whenever you make one aspect of a behavior more difficult (a more distracting environment), you want to make other aspects easier (walking beside the dog rather than twenty feet away).",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Sharese Dawkins, Do's and Don'ts to a Better Way of Living:",
          "text": "Please don't make a lot of loud, unnecessary noises—slamming the desk or copy machine drawer closed, etc. This is very distracting and rude.",
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        "Causing a distraction; interfering with the ability to concentrate or focus."
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  "word": "distracting"
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