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alarm bell

NOUN

warning bell

Synonyms

STRONGEST

fire alarm

WEAK

burglar alarm danger signal tocsin

Example Sentences

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Though this hasn’t yet reached the scale of a pandemic, it’s essentially an alarm bell for any country that values human life.

From Salon • May 20, 2026

Her husband telling her to give up her job is an alarm bell.

From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026

"Every alarm bell for democracy must ring," Prof Shannon Vallor, chair of ethics of data and AI at Edinburgh University, told the BBC.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

"Niscemi is another alarm bell... we must respond by changing our habits" and "choosing not to build in certain ways and in certain places".

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

Then the thought of what she had to do came back to her like the clanging of an alarm bell.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien