attention

Example Sentences

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"The patient was clear that he didn't want medical attention, but he did want help getting home, so I called our control room to agree next steps," she said.

From BBC

"Every day, parents and teachers see how social media shapes children's identities and attention long before they sit their GCSEs, pulling them into isolating, endless loops of content," he said.

From BBC

The coffins of the victims were cloaked in Guatemalan blue-and-white flags and were flanked by colleagues in uniform, standing to attention.

From Barron's

Granola and yogurt When people organize meal trains, dinner gets most of the attention.

From Salon

They compared pregnancies in which acetaminophen was used with those in which it was not, paying particular attention to studies that examined siblings born to the same mother.

From Science Daily