call attention
Example Sentences
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“The new girl didn’t knock, or do anything to call attention to herself,” she thinks, summing up a fresh hire.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
This is something politicians do to call attention to a problem in their communities.
From Slate • Jun. 14, 2025
This was meant to call attention to the shamefulness of this hearing, "if shame was still a thing," as the committee's ranking member Stephen Lynch, D-Mass. put it.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2025
“I think that USC’s strategy is not to call attention to itself — not to ‘put targets on our backs,’” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025
“I think it’s to call attention to them,” Reynie said.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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