attentively

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Recent Examples of attentively 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
  • Their worry sharpens their focus and pushes them to prepare more thoroughly.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The scripts honestly don’t have a clue who Jake is, and Law’s performance is thoroughly unfocused, if emotionally persuasive at moments.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • This makes the AirLight Pro more efficient (less heat is lost to the air), less damaging (not as much heat is needed to dry your hair), and seriously speedy.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The bank is advising its clients to take that change seriously, Sarah Kapnick, its global head of climate advisory, told Semafor.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Among them, lithium mining is a dirty process, and the new president will need to safeguard the environment in the host areas once such mining earnestly gets underway.
    Daniel Markind, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • No one can credibly claim that X under Musk is trying to be neutral, or build a better political arena, as Bluesky, whatever its flaws, has earnestly tried to do.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • 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
  • Most of those winners have been exhaustively showcased on our site.
    Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Two years painstakingly transforming a 200-year-old Philadelphia row house into the restaurant equivalent of a Formula 1 car; nearly 20 more honing his skills in kitchens across the city, learning, sharpening, waiting.
    The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The opening chapters of Sense and Sensibility are painstakingly precise about money.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Someone who understands their own core beliefs, values and mission—and sticks to them ardently.
    Rob Lancit, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • So my relationship with it had been more verbal and lyrical, and seeing a production that was so ardently about the physical experience of Hamlet… that really left a mark on me.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • But the Jays provided Fisher with needed rest by meticulously scheduling his outings.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Castro’s talent lies in meticulously creating a realistic—and entertaining—portrait of one man’s compulsions, bringing individual texture to a curious social phenomenon.
    Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • So while cells in a younger person (that were continuously exposed to estrogen prior to HRT) might benefit from a fresh influx of estrogen, ones that had a break from that estrogen bath might react negatively to it.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In the last few releases, Apple has added and continuously improved support for external game controllers, added a low-latency Game Mode, and introduced the Game Porting Toolkit, a collection of translation layers that helps developers test native Windows games on the Mac without modification.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Attentively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attentively. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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