as in to follow
to take notice of and be guided by
you'd better listen to my advice!
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The faults at 6:10 p.m. and again at 6:11 p.m. coincided with two flashes in the vicinity of the transmission lines seen in a video captured by a camera at an Arco gas station in the moments before the Eaton fire began, followed by flames near the base of high-voltage transmission towers.—
Ivan Penn,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2025 -
Before the action began, the proverbial ball was in Robert Lewandowski's court, who led the table with nine goals, followed by his Barcelona team-mate Raphinha with eight and Dortmund's Serhou Guirassy with seven.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
The Athletic,
30 Jan. 2025
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More research is still needed to find out how successful people were in sustaining the new habits examined in the study, Singh noted.—
Joshua Korber Hoffman,
CNN,
27 Jan. 2025
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Where are these powers noted in the U.S. Constitution or federal law?—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
27 Jan. 2025
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By all observations, the strong force obeys two important symmetries in nature: charge and parity.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
26 Jan. 2025
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At some point the classical simulation will just fail because bouncing balls will never be able to replicate the peculiar quantum mechanical laws obeyed by sub-atomic particles.—
Vineer Bhansali,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Listen (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/listen%20%28to%29. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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