take (someone or something) seriously

idiom

: to treat (someone or something) as being very important and deserving attention or respect

He takes his religious faith seriously.

She's well qualified for the job, so she hopes the company will take her seriously.

His parents threatened to punish him, but he didn't take them seriously, since he had not been punished before.

Most politicians take themselves too seriously.

Examples of take (someone or something) seriously in a Sentence

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All this adds up to something that European leaders must soon take seriously, says Tanja Börzel, a political science professor at the Freie Universität, or Free University, in Berlin. —Willem Marx, NPR, 5 Dec. 2024

Synergy If leverage is business jargon's greatest hit, synergy is its power ballad—dramatic, overplayed, and impossible to take seriously anymore. —Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024

The people must look to all 100 senators to take seriously their responsibility to provide checks and balances. —Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2024

This is a scenario Zelensky and his partners in Europe need to take seriously, if only because ATACMS are unlikely to significantly alter the battlefield dynamics to Ukraine's benefit. —Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024