attention
Example Sentences
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"It's not laziness, it's the executive dysfunction that makes it difficult... People have trouble focusing their attention and keeping it sustained long enough to complete these tasks," she said.
From BBC
Instead, the former Bosnia-Herzegovina striker hinted he had deliberately created headlines in an effort to divert attention towards him and away from the 23-year-old former Roma and Ajax player.
From BBC
"Their ad businesses thrive off attention," said Jasmine Enberg of Scalable.
From Barron's
To put that in context, most of the patterns that capture investors’ attention have R-squareds of less than 0.10 — if not zero.
From MarketWatch
Now that they are defanged, these countries’ remaining afflictions don’t threaten Americans or occupy the attention of senior U.S. national security officials.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
