1
as in followed
to take notice of and be guided by
if we had heeded the ranger's advice, we might not have gotten lost
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as in listened
to pay attention especially through the act of hearing
that boy never heeds when I caution him about running with his shoelaces untied
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Recent Examples of heeded
Peter Finn, managing director of industrial technology at Brown Gibbons & Lang, said Gartner’s warnings around worker safety need to be heeded.
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Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
Those warnings were not heeded, the lawsuit alleges.
—Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2025
City leaders heeded the advice of a group of business, labor and community leaders known as the Cincinnati Futures Commission to step up parking enforcement.
—Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2025
In the first three days after Gaza City was declared a combat zone, only about 14,840 Palestinians heeded the evacuation order, according to the joint humanitarian body Site Management Cluster.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 8 Sep. 2025
Had Boorman heeded Kubrick’s advice and shot another Exorcist with double the violence, there’d probably be no story here.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
But whether or not they are heeded, in the end, the truth will out.
—Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
That is how close mankind might be to blowing itself up if warnings like this exceptionally powerful and brilliantly directed movie’s message isn’t heeded.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
In the years to come, the backlash in Georgia may be a warning well heeded—or the first of many battles.
—Justin Worland, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
Those warnings were not heeded, the lawsuit alleges.
—Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2025
City leaders heeded the advice of a group of business, labor and community leaders known as the Cincinnati Futures Commission to step up parking enforcement.
—Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2025
In the first three days after Gaza City was declared a combat zone, only about 14,840 Palestinians heeded the evacuation order, according to the joint humanitarian body Site Management Cluster.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 8 Sep. 2025
Had Boorman heeded Kubrick’s advice and shot another Exorcist with double the violence, there’d probably be no story here.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
But whether or not they are heeded, in the end, the truth will out.
—Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
That is how close mankind might be to blowing itself up if warnings like this exceptionally powerful and brilliantly directed movie’s message isn’t heeded.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
In the years to come, the backlash in Georgia may be a warning well heeded—or the first of many battles.
—Justin Worland, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heeded
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Hydrolysate has the highest protein content, followed by isolate and concentrate.—
Merve Ceylan,
Health,
28 Sep. 2025
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Had the old formula been followed, residents would be getting about $3,800 each.—
Becky Bohrer,
Fortune,
28 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, people who listened to the fear sold perfectly good stocks and missed major gains.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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Banning the song turned out to be useless; millions of people simply listened to it on YouTube.—
Anna Nemtsova,
The Atlantic,
30 Sep. 2025
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In addition to retail sales, some of these items were distributed to schools and Department of Defense facilities, although the USDA noted that the school distribution was not part of the National School Lunch Program.—
Daniel Orton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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While Memphis has seen high numbers of violent crimes such as homicides and carjackings in recent years, Democratic and Republican officials have noted decreases this year in some crime categories.—
Devon M. Sayers,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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Summer, filming her sister at the table, can be heard in the background prompting her to keep going.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Mthethwa also faced an ongoing probe that heard allegations by a provincial police commissioner who accused him of attempting to obstruct the prosecution of a former head of South Africa’s Crime Intelligence Services who was being investigated for corruption.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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And just like the existence of a black hole’s event horizon results in the creation of Hawking radiation, the existence of a cosmological horizon must also — if the same laws of physics are to be obeyed — create radiation.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025
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The fans obeyed and there was absolute silence until Putellas’s shot, which ended up too central and was stopped by Hannah Hampton.—
Laia Cervelló Herrero,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Heeded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heeded. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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