pay attention to

idiom

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

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Usually a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or blood clot that can lead to a PE occurs in one leg, but not both, so pay attention to one-sided pain. Erica Sloan, SELF, 10 Feb. 2026 Users protested the change, and days after the new model’s launch, Altman said OpenAI would keep GPT-4o available for paid ChatGPT users and would also pay attention to how many people were using it to determine when to retire it. Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2026 Don’t pay attention to the noise, people. Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 8 Feb. 2026 When Michael Weiss, a two-time Olympian and two-time world bronze medalist, first told Boitano about a talented skater in Virginia who wanted to learn to do a backflip on the ice, Boitano made a note to pay attention to the kid, who hadn’t started doing quad jumps regularly yet. Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026 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 14 Feb. 2026.

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