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mind

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verb

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as in to listen
to pay attention especially through the act of hearing you'll be in big trouble if you don't straighten up and mind

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as in to care
to have an interest or concern for don't mind him; he's always complaining

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Recent Examples of mind
Noun
With the rush now behind us, many retailers have put school supplies and students out of mind. — Tony D'onofrio, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 August 23 – September 22 Your mind may run ahead of the facts this morning. — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 13 Oct. 2026
Verb
The post about Herlihy calls to mind the return to concerts of the early post-COVID era. — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026 Usually, either a star and its companion mind their own business or the star completely and rapidly devours its neighbor. — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mind
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mind
Noun
  • The music on Uncle feels innate, as if Funkhouser had dug these songs out from deep within the crawlspace in his brain.
    — Jeff Yerger, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Detours and shortcuts in the brain The cells and synapses of the brain aren’t arranged in rigid, linear paths for each task and experience.
    — Sean Mccabe, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • My aims are to improve our quality of life on everything from affordability to traffic to public safety; to restore fiscal sanity to our public finances; and to end the brazen self-dealing that has become business as usual in local government.
    — Miami Herald staff, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Multihyphenate and a mother of four, Ayesha Curry finds sanity in the chaos of her day-to-day.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • One of Bilton and Weiss’s signature new on-air hires is the conservative writer Ross Douthat, formerly an opinion columnist for the Times.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Much of its work, particularly on national security matters, remains shielded from public view, but some of the office’s conclusions have emerged in often dense legal opinions.
    — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The blue world on the paper and the dream-shapes of the music might well be one of those timeless memories of a child.
    — Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The experience highlighted how increasingly sophisticated consumer products require more computing power and memory, creating additional opportunities for chipmakers.
    — Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Yet their willingness to talk, listen, and imagine what had seemed impossible helped lay the groundwork for historic nuclear arms reductions.
    — Halla Tómasdóttir, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The poetry world in the city is multifarious and energetic, with waves of practitioners reading, listening to, and publishing one another.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Daisy says that no one even remembers that, though, that people only know about it because Hailey brings it up.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Al Hassan remembers showing a group of visitors TAMM’s feature for taking pictures and reporting potholes.
    — Inzamam Rashid, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The man was carrying a knife, according to the affidavit, but obeyed the officers’ commands to drop the weapon.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Six additional citations — speeding, improper passing, failing to drive in a single lane, following too closely, failing to obey traffic control and running a red light — have been added to his charges.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2026
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  • Be intentional about noticing autumn and Halloween displays on lawns and porches, which seem as popular as ever this year.
    — Dana Kelley, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
  • They are focused on inspecting what is known as the Taraia Object, a visual anomaly that has been visible in aerial photos dating back to 1938 but was first noticed in satellite imagery in 2020.
    — Lana Zak, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026

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“Mind.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mind. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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