Tendency to tune out or drift away in the middle of a page or a conversation.
After four or five hours, the Zodiac began to drift away from the iceberg.
Yet some voters are beginning to drift away from the rigid identity politics of old.
"The ship will drift away from its true position, and slowly start to turn, " said Prof Last.
Unless the Church develops this part of its ministry, many of these young Hispanic Catholics could drift away.
Readers pointed out that continental drift is causing France to drift away from the United States, not toward it.
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And each year, 10% of school-leavers drift away without any qualifications at all.
Eventually, he saw Donahue drift away from his man and slipped a pass inside to set up the winning goal.
They have seen ethnic supporters who backed them during the conflict drift away as they draw closer to national power.
They come in riding high expectations for pro-business, pro-growth policies--and inevitably disappoint investors as they drift away from their power base.
England started well after Hussain won the toss and elected to field, but let the game drift away with shoddy fielding.
The faithful have not stopped going to Mass or, at least, the drift away from the pews that began in the 1950s has not accelerated.
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As some Catholics of European heritage drift away from the faith of their fathers, they are being replaced in the pews by Latino immigrants.
Here, 11, 000 km from Seoul, alone and impressionable, Ko began to drift away from his old friends and to take up with a racier crowd.
They all stood watching the coast drift away, the smoke rise.
When I sat down to meditate this morning, relaxing a little more with each out-breath, I was successful in letting all my concerns drift away.
They start to drift away, though not in any recognised manner.
Cassano superbly spun away from two defenders and swept in an inviting cross that allowed Balotelli to drift away from Bastuber and head home from close range.
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But about 85m years ago, as India started to drift away from Madagascar towards its current location, the microcontinent would have broken up, eventually disappearing beneath the waves.
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You are seeing an accelerated drift away from serving women.
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Is Mustafa worried that under Turkey's new government, led by a former Islamist, Tayyip Erdogan, the country will drift away from the pro-secular legacy of his hero, Kemal Ataturk?
He made one priority in the diocese sorting out its finances, giving up his personal chaplain as part of the programme, and the other reversing the drift away from Church membership.
And there's a general drift away from the Republican Party in Massachusetts as there are in some other key states, in part because of the unpopularity of President Bush and his policies.
But the audience started to drift away in early 2010 when services such as Facebook and Twitter exploded in popularity, as users preferred getting article recommendations from their friends or people they followed.
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Hearts remained in control in the second half and Marius Zaliukas beat Smith to a high ball, but saw his header drift away from goal, while Kingston was too high with two long-range efforts.
Mr Nekrassov added Mr Gorbuntsov was "one of the big bankers" in Russia but over the past few years he "did sort of drift away from banking and was selling his interests in Russia".
Maybe the government can block Lord Puttnam and not provide a compromise, but the lesson from this episode is that the Parliamentary supporters of press regulation are not going to get bored and drift away.
"The Rydberg electron resembles a sheepdog that keeps its flock together by roaming speedily to the outermost periphery of the flock, and nudging back towards the centre any member that might begin to drift away, " said Professor Greene.
In a poll conducted May 28-June 1 for the Anti-Defamation League, 60% of 540 adult Jewish Israelis surveyed believed that American Jews continue to feel close to Israel (up from 45% in 2009), while 26% feared a drift away from Israel.
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