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attending

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noun

attending

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verb

present participle of attend
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as in listening
to pay attention especially through the act of hearing I'm sorry, but all the noise means I'm having a hard time attending to the conversation

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as in coinciding
to occur or exist at the same time all the pomp and circumstance that attend the opening of the Olympic Games

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Recent Examples of attending
Noun
Patrick also discussed the impact Swift attending games has on younger generations who may not have been football fans before — including his own daughter. Escher Walcott, People.com, 5 Feb. 2025 Every member of this person’s care team—from nurses and social workers to residents and attendings—nodded in agreement. Zoe Adams, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2024
Verb
Manufacturers attending this year include Volvo, RAM, Porsche, Toyota, VW, Nissan, Rolls-Royce, MB, Lucid, Maserati, KIA, Lamborghini, Hyundai, Honda, Fiat, Ford, Genesis, Jeep, Lincoln, Jeep, Dodge, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Audi, Alfa Romeo, Acura, Cadillac, Bentley and others. Marc D. Grasso, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2025 The honor roll student and National Honor Society member is an AP scholar with distinction and will be attending Colgate University with a major in biochemistry. Brian Roach, Boston Herald, 13 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for attending
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Adjective
  • However, because an element of confusion is present, postpone important decisions.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 1 May 2025
  • Black smoke tends to be present if heavy fuels are being burned, such as during an oil spill or vehicle fire.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • Administered by the College Board, AP courses and their accompanying exams have long been regarded as benchmarks for students’ college preparedness, offering a more standardized metric by which to assess a student’s academic skillset.
    Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • Brink signed a deal with Buick ahead of the 2023 NCAA Tournament, but couldn’t shoot any part of the accompanying commercial in Maples Pavilion.
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • In perpetrator countries, most people were passive witnesses, but there was also considerable participation by elites including artists, university professors, Catholic and Protestant clergy, media moguls, business leaders, and even physicians.
    Robert Williams, Time, 24 Apr. 2025
  • To provide the best maternity care, nurses and physicians have to listen to their patients.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The listening phase also involves a countywide survey, to be released later this year, to solicit feedback from the general public.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Yet 117 studies on workplace listening reveal that many managers aren’t good listeners.
    Jeffrey Yip and Colin M. Fisher, Harvard Business Review, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • And, coinciding with the holiday, the space station could easily double as Santa's sleigh to innocent eyes.
    Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The study show that a major volcanic pulse occurred about 30,000 years before the impact, coinciding with at least a 5 degrees cooling of the climate.
    David Bressan, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • For a series purporting to be in large part about fathers and sons, domestic life and its attendant ceremonies have never gotten much play in Star Wars.
    Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Given the way that U.S. forces are constructed today, U.S. defense strategists face a difficult choice between preemption, with its attendant risks of escalation, and the real possibility of a first strike by Beijing, with the heavy losses that would cause.
    ANDREW S. LIM, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • My doctors have warned me to pay attention to symptoms for any long-term effects.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Pope Francis died quickly on April 21 without suffering undue pain, and there was nothing that doctors could have done to save his life, said Sergio Alfieri, a physician at Rome's Gemelli hospital and head of the pontiff's medical team, Reuters reported.
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Roles will increasingly revolve around supervising, collaborating with, or augmenting the capabilities of AI agents.
    Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Rick Morales is supervising producer.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2024

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“Attending.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attending. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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