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been preoccupied
verb
To distract; to occupy or draw attention elsewhere.
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Philosophers have long been preoccupied by gesture.
Labour has been preoccupied elsewhere.
Candidates for office had been preoccupied with the subject.
"I've been preoccupied with everything that's happening," he said.
Then, too, he has been preoccupied with other things.
For the last two centuries we have been preoccupied elsewhere.
Of late, culture, too, has been preoccupied with this issue.
Jim Shepard has always been preoccupied by history.
He had always been preoccupied with sexuality, violence and death.
Nina had been preoccupied by what had happened.
Lately, they have been preoccupied with simply saving their reputations.
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