pay attention to

idiom

: to concentrate on
Pay (close/careful) attention to what she says.

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Hands-off, eyes-off Drive Pilot technology allows the driver to pay attention to the central screen and not traffic. Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025 Everything else would be too small to pay attention to. Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 Meanwhile, the decent people who are likely to pay attention to calls for calm and cool aren’t the ones raising the temperature anyway. Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 12 Sep. 2025 That means August inflation numbers are important to pay attention to. Medora Lee, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pay attention to

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“Pay attention to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pay%20attention%20to. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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