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alive to sth

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Definition

If you are alive to something, you are thinking about it or familiar with it: I ski for the excitement, but I'm also always alive to the risks.Aware
(Definition of alive to sth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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