How to Use attention deficit disorder in a Sentence

attention deficit disorder

noun
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  • One of the Ryan girls has autism, and a son has attention deficit disorder.
    — Krista Torralva, ExpressNews.com, 25 Jan. 2021
  • That approach — public health attention deficit disorder — has been the pattern with public health crises in the past.
    — Céline Gounder, STAT, 23 Feb. 2022
  • In the video, Fath explains that he's suffered from severe attention deficit disorder his whole life.
    — The Enquirer, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Is there really such a thing as attention deficit disorder or not?
    — Leslie Anne Tarabella, AL.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Traces of methamphetamine, which the coroner’s report said can be used to treat attention deficit disorder and obesity, were also found in Michael's blood.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Many of these 120-plus medications are ones that kids depend on for the likes of diabetes and attention deficit disorder.
    — Megan Ranney, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Words, like children with attention deficit disorder, won’t sit still.
    — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 6 June 2018
  • Issac didn’t see a therapist until about six months later, and that was to deal with attention deficit disorder.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
  • My theory is that drivers who constantly change lanes have an acute form of attention deficit disorder, which leads to boredom.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Ruthi shares that she was diagnosed with adult attention deficit disorder some 20 years into her career.
    — Michelle Matthews, AL.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Some people with attention deficit disorder lose track of items because they are easily distracted and focus on more than one task at once.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 27 May 2021
  • One has attention deficit disorder and the other has autism, and both rely heavily on social and emotional supports at school.
    — Erin Richards, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The Google Music shutdown is purely Google's attention deficit disorder in action.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 24 June 2020
  • At least 15 percent of trans children had attention deficit disorder, a rate three to seven times higher than cisgender youngsters.
    — Rita Giordano, Philly.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • By her sophomore year in high school, Einbinder was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder and prescribed Adderall.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2021
  • Zach struggles with attention deficit disorder and needs to learn in person to avoid distractions that otherwise derail his studies.
    — Emily Donaldson, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The big three complaints are allergies, asthma and attention deficit disorder, and anxiety is quickly becoming the fourth, Ms. Godel said.
    — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 20 July 2018
  • The pair concocted a plan to sell their Adderall, prescribed for attention deficit disorder, on the dark web — a wild, unregulated layer of the internet reached through a special browser.
    — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2019
  • In junior high, he was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder.
    — Nick Heil, Outside Online, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The affidavits also said Anne Minard believed Chatfield abused Adderall, a drug used to treat attention deficit disorder that also acts as a stimulant.
    — Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2022
  • What had helped him, at least temporarily, was a prescription for stimulants in the wake of a diagnosis of adult attention deficit disorder in his early thirties.
    — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, WIRED, 8 May 2018
  • Esther and Benji are a couple of aging children, with urban attention deficit disorder.
    — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Are people with attention deficit disorder more resistant to magic tricks?
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Autism is usually diagnosed around age 2, attention deficit disorder at school age or later, and schizophrenia in adolescence or young adulthood.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2022
  • New Mexico will consider whether to extend its medical cannabis program to help dogs with epilepsy and people with attention deficit disorder.
    — Morgan Lee, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Blood pressure, diabetes, attention deficit disorder — all improve with some time spent outside.
    — CBS News, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Tony says that Peyton has been diagnosed with mental retardation, autism, and attention deficit disorder.
    — Jessica Pishko, Esquire, 8 Sep. 2016
  • Vutpakdi's son is part of a rare group known as twice exceptional, or 2e — children who have high IQs of over 130, but who also face challenges such as attention deficit disorder, autism, dyslexia or dysgraphia, the inability to write clearly.
    — Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Defense attorney Mark Werksman had asked Helton to sentence the driver to probation, noting that he was diagnosed with autism, depression and attention deficit disorder after the crash.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Hanna first denied having any issues, chalking up his forgetfulness and mild cognitive impairment to old age and his longtime attention deficit disorder.
    — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023

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