attentive
Example Sentences
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It prompts me to be less attentive, because I perceive the notetaker as a safety net.
From Slate • May 24, 2026
Since becoming a mother, keepers said she had settled "beautifully" into her new role, and was proving to be "calm, attentive and content", while trusting her keepers to be nearby but not too close.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
It also spoke to who Kiara was as a person, family members said: beautiful, warm, thoughtfully attentive to details and focused on the things that matter most.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
The idea that meaningful and attentive engagement could come from averting your gaze may seem counterintuitive, but it translates to other basic forms of human interaction.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
He smiled with some satisfaction in the rapt attitudes of his hearers; for both of us could not have been more attentive, though I, for empty shew, flipped the pages of my Locke.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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