heedful

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A more heedful scientist might have surveyed the Chinese data and begun preparations for tests of his own.

From New York Times • May 12, 2020

McMillan initially promised to train fissile material handlers to be more heedful of plutonium-handling perils, for example, and to bring the inventory and safety documents guiding their work up to date.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 30, 2017

Her 16th birthday is the occasion for an Edwardian tennis match – lots of chaps swanning about in white flannels and boaters – through which she skitters barefoot, heedful only of her secret romance.

From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2012

And the military, despite its intermittently heavy-handed responses, is heedful of public sentiment to a degree unprecedented under the old regime.

From Time • Jun. 2, 2011

The true artist, heedful of his "when" and "how," is master of both moods.

From An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. by Wyatt, Matthew Digby