Busy and Paying

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Busy adjective - Involved in often constant activity.

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Paying and busy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Paying" instead an adjective "Busy".

Nearby Words: busily, busyness, busied, busying

Paying adjective - Yielding a profit.

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Busy and paying are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Busy" instead an adjective "Paying".

Nearby Words: pay, payment, payable, payout, payer

While everyone else is busy fighting everyone else, and thus aren't paying much to attention to him, Guido stabs Tyre — Wolfsbane's son — and in doing so, becomes the new Lord of all the Hells.

Source: Comic Book / X-Factor
Not Now, Kiddo: Episode 6 has Prince Sprocket and Klank do this to Orbus, as they're busy bickering, while Orbus is the only one paying attention to their scheme.

Source: Series / Power Rangers Zeo
However Asuka is wearing nothing but a towel and Shinji is so busy ogling to her bare legs that he is barely paying attention to what she is telling.

Source: Distracted By The Sexy / Fan Works

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