Interested to know this as well. I am not sure if pointing to a definition on Urban Dictionary with ~100 thumbs is enough to redefine a word let alone assume that the average person is using it as a dog whistle.

It occurred to me that...

I realized that...

I became aware...

That's without even looking for a thesaurus. Not that I'm supporting this alt-definition of noticing, but your question seemed pretty trivial to answer.

Thanks, that does answer the question I wrote, however my point was that I'm very uncomfortable with this environment where any innocent word could be interpreted as a dog-whistle, and was curious if any "notice" synonyms are also considered dog-whistles.

Then it's 5 seconds before all those are "bad words" too.

Maybe it's better to assume that most people in the world aren't evil degenerates unless there's hard evidence to the contrary.

Welcome to the "woke" world. You'll be learning a lot about what people totally unfamiliar to you do that you've also done at some point without knowing it. We're all sinners in a woke world