What does call attention mean?
Definitions for call attention
call at·ten·tion
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word call attention.
Princeton's WordNet
signalize, signalise, point out, call attentionverb
point out carefully and clearly
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of call attention in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of call attention in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of call attention in a Sentence
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.
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.
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.
The purpose of it was to call attention to the United States concerning our campaign finance laws, or the lack thereof.
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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