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paying attention

adjective as in listening

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Turns out, someone was apparently paying attention to his tweets.

Archaeology is about paying attention to things that have been or could be indetectable or invisible to others.

If that sounds a lot like Romney to you, you're paying attention.

Some, like Deresiewicz, have attacked student culture for not paying attention to what older folks know about “a meaningful life.”

Many celebrities—Nicki Minaj included—reached new heights of fame when we started paying attention to their rear ends.

It was by paying attention to such little things that the Cave-men learned to make barbed spears.

Thank God I have given up paying attention to the ideas and points of view and habits of the man I am conversing with.

Muriel wagged her head proudly at Jerry to show the latter how closely she had been paying attention.

We can play the piano, after we become skilled, without paying attention to the actual movements of our hands.

It was just a bad patch, the kind of thing that happens when people who love each other stop paying attention for a few years.

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On this page you'll find 286 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pay attention, such as: listen, and give heed.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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