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

Indeed, everywhere there is nothing doing—God forbid that the steady warlike preparations of the Transvaal Government should intimidate us, but let us at least be heedful and not over sleepy.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus