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as in present
being within the confines of a specified place
a surprise arrest of the operator of an illegal gambling joint and all attending employees
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2
as in accompanying
present at the same time and place
dislikes flying and all of its attending inconveniences
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as in physician
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as in escorting
to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship
a passel of assistants attend the movie star wherever she goes
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2
as in listening
to pay attention especially through the act of hearing
I'm sorry, but all the noise means I'm having a hard time attending to the conversation
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3
as in watching
to take charge of especially on behalf of another
tired of attending other people's children, the nanny was eager to have a child of her own
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as in coinciding
to occur or exist at the same time
all the pomp and circumstance that attend the opening of the Olympic Games
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Recent Examples of attending
Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2024
One question, and perhaps the obvious one, is: What is Catherine going to do about her lack of attendings?
—EW.com, 9 Sep. 2024
Fortesa Latifi, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2025
For health reasons, Jean-Marie Le Pen was excused from attending court to face the charges.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2025
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Noun
More interns sleep together in the closet than attendings!
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Shari, who by then was attending Brigham Young University, is essentially cut off herself.
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Adjective
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Anti and Good Girl Gone Bad are both still present, and the similarities between their placements are uncanny, which points to fans consuming them in similar ways and numbers.—
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The new plan includes additional focus on hazardous vegetation that could enable the spread of wildfires when not properly maintained or when invasive, flammable species are present.—
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On Tuesday, Miley Cyrus followed her album announcement with a trailer for its accompanying film, which teases an imaginative storyline backed by the album’s 13 tracks.—
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Other accompanying sauces include au poivre, diable and Périgourdine, adding French flavor to your meal.—
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Alexandra said her physicians eventually diagnosed her with Mycoplasma pneumonia, a bacterial infection that mimics many symptoms of viral flu and pneumonia.—
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But by the early 2000s, discussions shifted to concerns about physician shortages.—
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Their roundtable conversation felt like listening to a podcast in all the right ways — casual and conversational.—
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Matz and Fedde aren't being shopped, but the Cardinals are reportedly listening to offers on both of them.—
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And, coinciding with the holiday, the space station could easily double as Santa's sleigh to innocent eyes.—
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The study show that a major volcanic pulse occurred about 30,000 years before the impact, coinciding with at least a 5 degrees cooling of the climate.—
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Artist and photographer Nona Faustine, who made Black womanhood and the attendant topics of identity, history, and representation her subjects in works of stunning visual power, died in New York on March 20.—
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Whereas distressed assets do have great upside potential, there are also attendant risks that should be properly addressed.—
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Things got so bad that Devine’s doctors diagnosed him with Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS), more formally known as Moersch-Woltman Syndrome.—
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Much like Grey’s, Pulse — which dropped its 10-episode first season on Thursday — focuses on two very pretty doctors (Willa Fitzgerald’s Danny Simms and Colin Woodell’s Xander Phillips) who become romantically entangled, complicating their jobs at a local hospital.—
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Roles will increasingly revolve around supervising, collaborating with, or augmenting the capabilities of AI agents.—
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Rick Morales is supervising producer.—
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“Attending.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attending. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.
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