

Nick Anderson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2022 Others fear the university is too preoccupied with racial and ethnic head counts. Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2022 And there are risks for the stock beyond valuation and concerns that Musk is too preoccupied with Twitter’s turnaround. 2023 Sadie just wants information about Iola, but her foremothers are too preoccupied with their own stories to help. 2023 Nothing about his occasional guffaws and affinity for going on tangents about passion points emit restless or preoccupied energy. Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023 Lowe deleted the call from his calendar, presuming Ridley-Thomas would be too preoccupied to talk. Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 31 Mar. Existing policies keep most people occupied most of the time.Recent Examples on the Web No one appeared shy, but no one appeared terribly preoccupied with the camera, despite persistent eye contact.Inertia has kept the sites occupied, but functionally many of them are not related to their countryside surroundings.She hoped they kept him occupied all day.The children in particular had a great time with computer games, entertainers and bouncy castles to keep them occupied.

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