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- noun Plural form of
multitasker .
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Examples
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Women are multitaskers, which is a gift, but it also can be a curse sexually, because if you're feeling very stressed, if you're not feeling great about your body, if you're not feeling great about the person you're with, it's very hard to turn those things off and focus on your arousal and let go and allow yourself to experience the sexual arousal and sexual process.
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It's because of the fact that we represent half of the world, that we are now getting ahead in studies, because we tend to commit more, and because we are natural negotiators and multitaskers, skills highly needed in the new economy, to talk only of a few advantages.
Paula Escobar ChavarrÃa: Quota Girls: The Other 99 Percent Paula Escobar ChavarrÃa 2011
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From an employer's point of view, one of the most worrying effects may be the trouble that chronic multitaskers have focusing.
Multitasking: More Is Less Ruth Mantell 2011
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With the apps, networks are trying to co-opt the same gadgets that have been siphoning off viewers and target multitaskers who thrive on being bombarded with information and chatter.
Help for Watching TV Jessica E. Vascellaro 2011
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In a 2009 study, Mr. Nass and other researchers found that heavy media multitaskers are "more susceptible to interference from irrelevant environmental stimuli," and were worse at switching between tasks, likely because of their lesser ability to ignore irrelevant information.
Multitasking: More Is Less Ruth Mantell 2011
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As women I think we are natural multitaskers and I guess sometimes in my "multitasking" I might do revengefull acts but of course not on purpose.
Women Grow Business » As a Leader, It’s in Your Best Interest to Recognize Revenge 2009
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Charlie Chaplin won a special Oscar for this film because he was one of cinema's first multitaskers.
Dan Lybarger: A Tale of Two Festivals: The Kansas Silent Film Festival and The True/False Documentary Film Festival Dan Lybarger 2011
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It's because of the fact that we represent half of the world, that we are now getting ahead in studies, because we tend to commit more, and because we are natural negotiators and multitaskers, skills highly needed in the new economy, to talk only of a few advantages.
Paula Escobar Chavarría: Quota Girls: The Other 99 Percent Paula Escobar Chavarría 2011
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Charlie Chaplin won a special Oscar for this film because he was one of cinema's first multitaskers.
Dan Lybarger: A Tale of Two Festivals: The Kansas Silent Film Festival and The True/False Documentary Film Festival Dan Lybarger 2011
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It takes flexibility to switch back and forth between tasks this way; non-multitaskers would be miserable using this method.
Ditching 800 Pounds of Clutter Sue Shellenbarger 2010
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