distracts
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Alexa fends off interference from Bayley, Bayley distracts referee Dan Engler (doing the ol’ Terry Funk empty arena “MY EYE!”, which is great) while Asuka gets a cheap shot in, lungblower.
Haru and Daisuke head to the villa and, while Haru distracts the security guards with the help of a weapon-filled pack, Suzue and Daisuke infiltrate the Third Laboratory.
Even a series of simple poses, she said, can be powerful, partly because it "distracts the mind from whatever was bothering it," and also because of the movement itself.
And, in Shyamalan tradition, he expertly distracts you from what one would assume would be the obvious storyline and it turns out.
For most of its history the grape has been viewed with suspicion as a "foreign influence" that distracts from the native grape varieties.
And I tell my kids ‘goodbye, mommy is going to work,’ and my husband distracts them until I get set up.”