How to Use take (someone or something) seriously in a Sentence
take (someone or something) seriously
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The post also warns that the group poses a threat that targets should take seriously.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 15 June 2023
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But that doesn’t mean the dirty windows aren’t posing health hazards that the city must take seriously.
—Jill Terreri Ramos, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
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And these are things the department has to take seriously and also has to consider what this means for the future.
—ABC News, 28 Aug. 2022
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All the great empires were wrecked in wars engaged on the periphery of their reign — a lesson republics should take seriously.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 6 Apr. 2022
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These are things to take seriously and to try to protect yourself, but there's also no reason for panic.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 2 Dec. 2023
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If we are elected, @JoeBiden and I will take seriously the changes in our climate and actively work to mitigate against the damage.
—Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2020
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In spite of the significant rains and floods, many residents didn’t take seriously the threat of the dam breaching and stayed put, focusing on shoring up their homes.
—Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
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At 1 percent, the tax is way too low for corporations to take seriously.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
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While many Godzilla films have sought to appeal to a younger audience, Gabara feels just too juvenile to take seriously as a threat.
—Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2023
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Miller feels the temptation, but never enough to take seriously.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2024
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But the spinoff’s approach lands as both too heavy-handed to ignore and too superficial to take seriously.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 May 2023
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What all of them take seriously is that their friend group is extraordinary.
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 22 Feb. 2022
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This is the biggest holiday in my family and the only one my parents take seriously!
—Diana Tsui, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Jan. 2023
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Snyder had myriad opportunities to correct course and to take seriously the claims made against him and his team.
—Jenny Vrentas, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
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Military leaders must take seriously the challenges posed by civilian efforts to politicize the armed forces.
—Risa Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2024
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In light of experience, the Turkish people no longer take seriously any informal pledge by the West to supply the Patriot.
—WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
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But a Supreme Court with a vested interest in avoiding new constraints on its own power has to take seriously the threat of growing support for court-packing or term limits.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2020
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But those things began getting harder to take seriously.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 May 2022
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But local attorneys and advocates say the unit, or CIU, has failed to take seriously its mission to correct wrongs in the criminal justice system.
—Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2024
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Parfit was so strange an individual, and lived such a strange life, that his musings on the real-life implications of his work might be hard to take seriously — or so my professor thought.
—Oliver Traldi, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
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Their fanatical conviction is easy to mock, but also hard not to take seriously.
—Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
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But even more important, the archdiocese noted in its statement, is the need to take seriously the Catholic obligation to observe abstinence on Lenten Fridays.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2023
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Even though Caton’s observations of brain waves were correct, his thinking was too unorthodox for others to take seriously.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 May 2020
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Those critiques about his music, Eduin refuses to take seriously.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2022
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Some writers have already stopped sharing their work online, and the courts will have to take seriously the idea that current AI-training practices could have a chilling effect on human creativity.
—Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
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Few Democrats in positions of power take seriously the possibility of spending billions of dollars to redistribute wealth to the descendants of slaves.
—Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 27 May 2023
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Biden’s claims to be protecting American workers and businesses in general with such actions are hard to take seriously.
—The Editors, National Review, 15 May 2024
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The company also received a report of someone getting a minor injury from a gas leak, so this is definitely something to take seriously.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2023
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Some legal experts and activists saw Rolfe’s prosecution as a litmus test for whether the justice system was willing to take seriously Indigenous deaths in custody.
—Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
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Such allegations are too self-serving to take seriously.
—Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 18 Jan. 2023
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