How to Use hypervigilant in a Sentence

hypervigilant

adjective
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  • What appear to be hypervigilant actions by the district have been embraced by many parents at the school.
    — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2022
  • And that officers are trained to be hypervigilant about their own safety.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
  • The ruminative story, full of deep sentiment and a favorite of hypervigilant Austen fans, is one of the most challenging of the author’s novels to put on screen.
    — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 15 July 2022
  • That said, these can be easy mistakes to make, and being hypervigilant about giving credit where due is crucial to being a good coworker.
    — Megan Greenwell, Wired, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Following this ns ear death event, the dog became hypervigilant, terrified of anything to do with the police (police cars, sirens, men in police uniform) and would shake and shiver and avoid them like the plague.
    — Gareth Cook, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2016
  • Since the fall of Roe v. Wade, people have been hypervigilant about third parties tracking menstrual data.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
  • During the early phases of the pandemic, millions were confined to their homes and asked to remain hypervigilant in public settings.
    — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 6 June 2023
  • Halloween Ends will reveal the ways in which Laurie is still hypervigilant, still uncomfortably alert to the potential for danger.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2022
  • For many Americans, the warmer spring and summer months bring backyard barbecues and scenic hikes — along with a chorus of cicadas, mosquitoes galore, and hypervigilant self-checks for ticks.
    — Bree Iskandar, STAT, 27 July 2023
  • The family was hypervigilant in taking precautions against the virus.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 5 July 2020
  • But what is certain is that in the wake of the recent incursion by a Chinese spy balloon, the U.S. and Canadian militaries are hypervigilant in flagging some objects that might previously have been allowed to pass.
    — Edward Wong, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Dogs are allowed all over this 8.4-million-acre expanse in northern Alaska, but visitors must be hypervigilant about wildlife hazards, and unrestrained pets are not permitted to kill wildlife.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 7 May 2021
  • The subtleties of bias in doctor’s offices, clinics and hospitals, especially if Black patients are not hypervigilant, can be stressful, costly, painful and even deadly.
    — Marissa Evansstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
  • In Israel, hypervigilant public health officials mandated that an entire school close any time a single coronavirus case was detected among students or staff.
    — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 11 July 2020
  • The pandemic itself reactivated hypervigilant trauma responses where the whole world was a threat.
    — Nikki Brown, PEOPLE.com, 9 June 2022
  • People who emerge from prisons with unchecked violence and overuse of solitary confinement might isolate or become hypervigilant, in what is commonly referred to as post-incarceration syndrome.
    — Washington Post, 26 May 2021
  • But instead of offering solace, people have become hypervigilant, Dr. Sommers said.
    — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Some people have seemingly decided to ignore public health advice altogether, while others have been scared into being hypervigilant.
    — Faye Flam, Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Yet who is molding us into these hypervigilant individuals?
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2023
  • In New Dawn, citizens live in a hypervigilant, technocratic state in which memories, dreams and individuality are tightly regulated by government forces.
    — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2022
  • This hypervigilant focus on survival directly affects parents’ ability to foster a nurturing relationship with their children.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023

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