pay attention

1. Heed, be attentive to, as in Now pay attention to these instructions. [Second half of 1700s]

Example Sentences

If you pay attention to the details, America is rapidly transforming from a service state — one that provides education, health care, infrastructure and parks to its citizens — into a carceral state that punishes and imprisons them.

From Salon

Pope, a nutritionist at the University of Vermont and one of the study’s co-authors, told Salon by email that people who want to avoid dietary disinformation need “to pay attention to who is providing the information. What are their qualifications? What do they know about your particular situation? It’s not necessarily productive for most people to get dietary information from social media, so stepping away from that as a source of nutrition information is probably a good idea.”

From Salon

One instinctively feels that far-reaching changes do not occur through the accident of people failing to pay attention or through passive acceptance or because they are brainwashed into voting for change that will damage them materially.

From Salon

"Of course they don't have the means to make a formal protest, so what do they do? They start sticking out these flags, waving them… They want people to pay attention to them."

From BBC

“Pay attention to the details, those matter,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

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