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Recent Examples of heedful In ancient times a heedful list is a ship of the mind. Jay Pilgreen, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024 Enduring decades of bans for its salacious content, D.H. Lawrence's 1928 avant-garde novel gets a fresh adaptation under the heedful eye of Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, who deftly explores the depths of female desire. Lia Beck, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2024 Her heedful eyes meet those of a young Black girl in overalls and braids on the other side of the room. Hazlitt, 9 Aug. 2023 That’s partly because retailers have grown less heedful about developing the necessary pipelines, a problem that’s worsened in recent years as retailers saw profits crushed by a push into low-margin e-commerce. Phil Wahba, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2023 As with recent demands to defund the police or abolish ICE amid our domestic upheavals, such calls should be heard not as literal policy prescriptions but as cries from the heart that demand heedful response. Suzanne Nossel, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022 Zhi-shay’ was horrified by his brother’s treatment, but also heedful of the powerful pack rules in which such cruelty is embedded. Pamela Miller, Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020 McMillan initially promised to train fissile material handlers to be more heedful of plutonium-handling perils, for example, and to bring the inventory and safety documents guiding their work up to date. R. Jeffrey Smith, Science | AAAS, 30 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heedful
Adjective
  • Leopold cautioned immigrants of any religious, national or ethnic background to be careful traveling.
    Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Bass has employed a more careful and conciliatory tone.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Still, the Dodgers plan to be cautious with the right-hander at the outset of the 2025 season.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
  • People who are pregnant should be cautious, as flaxseeds might have mild hormonal effects.
    Johna Burdeos, Health, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But investors should be wary of the volatility of cryptocurrencies.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Police urged citizens to be wary of suspicious job offers, particularly those that offer high pay that comes with free accommodation and travel.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune Asia, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Myriad problems have plagued Los Angeles County’s alert system as wildfires keep torching America’s most populous county.
    Holly Yan, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Firefighters are still battling two monstrous wildfires that have burned for over a week as weary residents across Los Angeles County stayed alert for another round of Santa Ana winds on Wednesday.
    Sam Morgen, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025

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“Heedful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heedful. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.

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