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to distracting

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To divert the attention of.

  • The crowd was distracted by a helicopter hovering over the stadium when the only goal of the game was scored.

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Why resort to distracting principles when a little useful ambiguity will do?

"I would not dream of being a party to distracting attention from that historic effort".

Sensible Republicans despaired that their party is reduced merely to distracting America from the war, and the economy.

The documentary sometimes gets on a jag of cutting back and forth between eccentric camera angles and symbolic still life — a lamp, a teacup — to distracting effect.

In "Irresistible," Miller couldn't keep his hands off his head and face; Joseph Poulson, poignantly, tried to intervene, and resorted to distracting Miller with carnations.

For the Journal, behavior-based advertising also offers a way to seduce advertisers without giving over its pages to distracting animations.

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One was to distract the government.

She would do things to distract me.

I just had to distract myself".

Instead, they tend to distract.

I tried to distract her.

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