be attentive

Example Sentences

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Policymakers will need to be attentive to accelerating wage demands should the jobless rate remain low, which would support the ECB raising rates regardless of the underlying damage to the economy, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

He urged believers to "be attentive to others... reaching out to the marginalised and becoming witnesses of God's tenderness."

From Barron's • Nov. 16, 2025

“The history of financial stability concerns is that the last episode is not going to predict the next episode, so you have to be attentive to everything.”

From MarketWatch • Nov. 6, 2025

“One important theme throughout history . . . is that federal courts have to be attentive to the limits of their power,” she said.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2025

To be attentive to the location of surveillance cameras, as in our Coxsackie tour, was one of them.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover