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alert

[uh-lurt] / əˈlɜrt /






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They honked the horn nine times to alert others nearby.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

The president of Swansea University's Jewish Society said she had to alert local counter-terrorism officers when organising routine activities for the society.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

OpenAI banned these accounts but didn’t alert authorities.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

The results of that sample are then reported to local health departments who alert state and federal health agencies if they identify a cluster of people diagnosed with the same food-borne illness.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

“Didn’t you get the alert? Moreau is free! The person who has the Black Book isn’t simply some apprentice magician. It’s one of the Night Brothers!!”

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

The south-west, south-east, London, East of England, West and East Midlands and Yorkshire and The Humber are all under the alerts from 9:00 BST on Tuesday 28 July until 9:00 BST on Friday 31 July.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

Tourists told the BBC of emergency alerts in the middle of the night, desperate drives just metres from six-storey high flames and the sight of people flocking to beaches with their suitcases.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

Heatstroke alerts have been issued for almost the whole country of around 125 million people.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

Emergency alerts were sent by telephone to residents of the districts because of the fire and several arterial roads were cut off, the Civil Guard said.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

On the night of December 7-8, there were four air-raid alerts in San Francisco.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

Ahmed, who was packing the car up, said he was alerted to them drowning and rushed back to the beach.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Dobrindt said that officers at train stations, airports and Germany's borders had been alerted to be on the lookout for Ballout.

From Barron's Jul. 26, 2026

His comrades now say that he never made any specific threats, adding they alerted authorities out of an abundance of caution.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

It was also likely a means to galvanize himself against how that experience alerted him to the omnipresent nearness of death.

From Slate Jul. 10, 2026

He dashed upstairs, alerted the “Home Guard,” and the four of them went downstairs.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

Meta Platforms Inc. is alerting thousands of employees that they’re being laid off, part of a previously announced restructuring aimed at reducing costs while the company invests heavily in artificial intelligence.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2026

He added, however, that AI agents could prove useful in alerting Wikipedia's community of millions of editors to certain niche news that would otherwise be missed.

From Barron's Jun. 22, 2026

The carriages’ union blamed the Central Park Conservancy for not alerting them to the potential health hazard for the horses.

From Salon Jun. 20, 2026

The driver who found the boys said he fed them before alerting the police.

From BBC May 21, 2026

But alerting just those few houses wasn’t enough to tip the alarm.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell




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