alarm
Example Sentences
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These "false positives" occurred in 14 % of the cases when the system raised an alarm.
From Science Daily
“The more alarming reality is that the worst is likely yet to come,” Rystad Energy says in an email.
Maybe the press could start raising alarms about that risk.
“Those quieter periods can feel like a constant alarm,” she says.
“It raises serious alarms about the nature of those deaths and what is really happening at that facility,” said American Civil Liberties Union staff attorney Savannah Kumar.
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