Preoccupied in a sentence as an adjective

Just don't use transit as your tool, it is preoccupied trying to be transit.

Son, I hate to tell you this, but I invented the Internet to keep you preoccupied as a child.

"It's bad to be racist, but we still must be preoccupied with race and being inoffensive at all costs.

In the words of Dr. Malcolm, "Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.

Late nights and early mornings, essentially every waking hour is spent preoccupied by building a great product.

Check.- Huxley feared we would become obsessed with consumerism and preoccupied with distraction.

Never be too distracted, preoccupied or inconvenienced to speak up and stand up against oppression.

In the US we are preoccupied with the idea that someone, somewhere may be doing something wrong and that we should be punishing that person because they deserve it.

But it's also comforting that incredibly wealthy people like Elon Musk are preoccupied with how to benefit humanity, and not just themselves.

Police enforcement efforts are almost entirely preoccupied with trafficking.

I wish government employees would think more about the consequences of their actions against common people, but I fear that they are too preoccupied with their Hollywood-cop fantasies.

Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.

So this "theory of mind" -- being preoccupied with what others think -- is actually claimed to be a runaway effect of the intelligence "arms race" which always occurs among animals living within that type of group.

Had you not been preoccupied with wishing the world was other than it is, that flower would have reminded you that, even in the presence of destruction, life and beauty are resilient, and will ultimately triumph.

He hasn't realised that you don't need anyone's permission to write games reviews or make short films or put together a little indie game, you just ******* do it. He is sufficiently preoccupied with the question of identity that he fails to understand that "doing x" precedes "being x".He uses the world "passion" more than anyone who understands the meaning of that word.

Replacing dial controls with flush push buttons, or worse consolidated touchscreens that control virtually everything means either I don't get any control of my radio/AC/etc when I am moving or I risk running someone down because I'm too preoccupied dealing with the shitty no-affordance monstrosity of a UI you replaced a perfectly great thing with.

Preoccupied definitions

adjective

deeply absorbed in thought; "as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class"; "lost in thought"; "a preoccupied frown"

See also: bemused

adjective

having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something; "became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle"; "was absolutely obsessed with the girl"; "got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children"; "he was taken up in worry for the old woman"

See also: haunted obsessed