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alert

[uh-lurt] / əˈlɜrt /






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Reuters previously reported the alert to banks from the Treasury.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

The next day, the video shows care staff anesthetizing Jackie for the blood transfusion and notes she was stronger and more alert the next day.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

The JMA initially issued a tsunami alert, but withdrew it at around 6:10 pm.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

The official French wildfire map gives Gironde and Pyrénées-Orientales its highest fire alert level.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

He could feel the adrenaline coursing through his system, his whole body on alert.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

They figure out how to disable alarms and alerts, or stick tape on digital dashboards to mimic old-school buttons.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Caine, who is described as more cautious, often alerts the White House to the “second and third order consequences” of military options, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

Amber and yellow heat health alerts are set to come into force on Wednesday as parts of the UK endure the fourth widespread heatwave of the year so far.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

The UK Health Security Agency has issued amber heat health alerts for the East Midlands, East of England, London and the south-east from 09:00 BST on 29 July until 09:00 BST on 30 July.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

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

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

The AMN said it was alerted to Strong getting into difficulties in the water off the Atlantic coast in southern Portugal at 11.33 BST on Monday.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

In two separate incidents, it alerted guards to men standing on rooftops who were able to be talked down, chief product officer Yuka Suzuki said.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

Using Signal, neighbors alerted one another when agents were near.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

The Mariners had alerted him after the first pick — infielder Eli Willits, by the Washington Nationals — that they would take him with the third, he said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 12, 2026

“You almost got us all killed, and you probably alerted every monstruo in Ravenskill.”

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

It says UK water companies keep pollution alerts active for varying periods so "for the safety of water users, SAS follows the precautionary approach to keep the current alerting system in place at 48 hours".

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

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

“We will be definitely alerting those courts to this new development,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said on Newsmax after the Supreme Court opinion was issued.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 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

So far the only thing it seemed to be good for was alerting more monsters to their presence.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan




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