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• He was sitting in a chair, absent-mindedly eating popcorn.

• She scrubbed absent-mindedly at the pan, reflecting on how things had turned out.

• "Mmmm?", asked Uncle John absent-mindedly.

• Both types of shopkeeper expose shoppers to two risks—that of yielding to temptation and that of absent-mindedly taking goods without payment.

• In his reply, he perhaps absent-mindedly omitted to provide it.

• He absent-mindedly steps into the path of an oncoming automobile and dies.

• Entranced by the flowers, he absent-mindedly picks a handful of tulips, arousing the wrath of a park-keeper.

• All of the subjects are shown seemingly staring into space absent-mindedly.