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Discover LudwigThe phrase "to avert attention" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when discussing actions taken to distract or divert focus from something. Example: "The magician used clever tricks to avert attention from his assistant's movements."
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Over the course of training, participants learn to attend to the valence of stimuli that predict the location of the probe to which they have to respond; therefore, the attend-threat training encourages a negative attentional bias, whereas the avoid-threat training encourages a tendency to avert attention from negative stimuli.
Milne, however, is entirely wrong to conclude that the Islamophobia he perceives is motivated by a desire to avert attention from western military adventurism and support for despots.
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Similarly, conservative talk show host and blogger Hugh Hewitt tweeted that the "tug of war by MSM to try and avert attention from murder of Amb and Marines and Middle East meltdown appalling but very revealing".
He added, "We have somehow managed to avert our attention".
Even if Jobs' iPhone plans aren't what developers want to hear, the masterful speaker will likely manage to avert their attention, albeit temporarily, elsewhere.
Anyway, isn't it better to be color-blind, to avert our attention from skin, to focus not on glaring differences, but on the commonality of character?
When we see these deplorable moves to avert our attention, we must ensure that we do not fall victim to its fallacy.
To avert our attention, the German government produced a pro-euro video that depicted just how multi-cultural the currency was going to be by showing a scantily-clad woman playing a violin in some poorly animated ancient Greek ruins and an Irish kid playing a flute in a meadow.
To avert subject attention from any interest in nasal airflow, we also fitted them with several mock psychophysiology electrodes (e.g., ECG), and told them they were participating in an electrophysiology rig equipment calibration and testing procedure.
For months prior to the vote, North Korea had engaged in a diplomatic charm offensive aimed at averting attention from the results of a UN Commission of Inquiry that investigated human rights abuses in the country.
Should she avert attention from the disreputable laws, should they come up?
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