What does call attention mean?

Definitions for call attention
call at·ten·tion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. signalize, signalise, point out, call attentionverb

    point out carefully and clearly

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of call attention in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of call attention in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of call attention in a Sentence

  1. Barbara Palmer:

    There are several scenarios where a person may put themselves in further harm by making a voice call, from victims of domestic abuse who are silently trying to get help to consumers who are hiding during a home invasion and don’t want to make noise and call attention to themselves.

  2. David Frank:

    The poorest people in the world (particularly in low-lying areas) will suffer the most if we do not take action on climate change… that calls for any tactic that might call attention to the problem.

  3. John Cavadini:

    But it is within the pope’s competence and authority to call attention to our moral responsibilities and duties in the face of the best scientific theory out there, especially when the consequences of not doing so are serious or even drastic, and where silence could be interpreted as scandalous.

  4. Michael Shanahan:

    The purpose of it was to call attention to the United States concerning our campaign finance laws, or the lack thereof.

  5. John Cavadini:

    He doesn’t thereby canonize or dogmatize a scientific theory, which by its very nature is subject to falsification and revision, but it is within the pope’s competence and authority to call attention to our moral responsibilities and duties in the face of the best scientific theory out there, especially when the consequences of not doing so are serious or even drastic, and where silence could be interpreted as scandalous.

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