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Recent Examples of attentively
At the same time, the 62-year-old said that smaller, more intimate meetings should be treated attentively.
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
Consider Josie, who listened attentively to the call that her Wall Street career was only the beginning of her professional achievements.
—James Patterson, Big Think, 24 Sep. 2025
The professional training, with Gravitas Golden Retrievers in Fresno, California, involved teaching Jamie to walk attentively on a leash and ignore distractions in public.
—Zach Wichter, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Wilson then pulled up his iPhone to show me, over our Zoom call, to show a video of Win sitting attentively in front of his Speed Snap set.
—Andy Frye, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Velasco was accustomed to teaching large classes; 50 students listened attentively to his lecture.
—Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Harvard graduates listen attentively to speakers during the commencement ceremony in Harvard Yard on May 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Preston Fore, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
Consider Josie, who listened attentively to the call that her Wall Street career was only the beginning of her professional achievements.
—James Patterson, Big Think, 24 Sep. 2025
The professional training, with Gravitas Golden Retrievers in Fresno, California, involved teaching Jamie to walk attentively on a leash and ignore distractions in public.
—Zach Wichter, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Wilson then pulled up his iPhone to show me, over our Zoom call, to show a video of Win sitting attentively in front of his Speed Snap set.
—Andy Frye, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Velasco was accustomed to teaching large classes; 50 students listened attentively to his lecture.
—Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Harvard graduates listen attentively to speakers during the commencement ceremony in Harvard Yard on May 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for attentively
Adverb
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The Kings are also a deep team, working conscientiously to pass the torch from the Kopitar/Doughty generation to Byfield, Brandt Clarke and beyond.—
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Geryon who is metaphorically and perhaps in reality a monster is infatuated with Herakles, but the internal world of Geryon is so thoroughly inspected.—
Amber McBride,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Let the pan heat thoroughly, about three to five minutes.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
5 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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No one seriously sought to challenge this international system; almost everyone sought to join it.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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And my experience in nearly three years at the Fed is that everybody sitting around the table takes the job extremely seriously.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
4 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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But when Neon bought the film just before its world premiere — and later injected roughly $1 million into reshoots that don’t improve the story much — Stuckmann’s scrappy underdog became a mainstream Frankenstein’s monster some horror fans earnestly wanted to watch fail.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
31 Oct. 2025
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When the country’s noblest values are being torn down with a wrecking ball, Gunn is earnestly telling stories that try to build them up, insisting that in a time of rising despair, hope is still punk rock.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The heft of the book—at more than six hundred pages, it is exhaustively researched and exhausting to read—reflects the writer’s convictions.—
Maggie Doherty,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Vaccine safety Federal health experts continuously monitor VAERS and other safety surveillance systems, exhaustively assessing the safety of vaccines.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Bjork, however, went all-in on the look, posing on the cover of Vogue Scandinavia in the blurred tulle Margiela gown with a merkin wig, fashioned from real human hair and painstakingly embroidered to the crotch of an underlaid silk stocking bodysuit.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
25 Oct. 2025
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Siwa’s mother, Jessalyn, and father, Tom, were painstakingly gluing the glittering stones on every inch of her tour costumes, down to her Nike Air Force 1s.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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The founders have become valuable trophies in the ongoing culture wars, ardently claimed by both sides.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Takaichi has ardently defended conservative family values.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
4 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The dancing at the party scene had been meticulously blocked, but Trier urged the performers to cut loose.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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The trails are meticulously maintained, winding through terrain that looks wild but is rarely out of reach.—
Lucy Kehoe,
AFAR Media,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Attentively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attentively. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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