alert
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While the inconvenience and brutality has certainly kept us angry and alert, there’s little proof it has made us safer.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Perhaps that was a self-negating prophecy, since warnings like his might have helped put the country on alert and prevented attacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Such systems might alert clinicians when a new medication appears to be treating a known side effect of an existing drug, giving them an opportunity to reconsider the treatment plan before adding another prescription.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
She says: "Without fail, after a snoring-induced wake up I would feel on incredibly high alert."
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
He could feel the adrenaline coursing through his system, his whole body on alert.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Could Pavlovian ping alerts be fueling a collective attention deficit disorder?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
The Saudi civil defence issued alerts warning of "potential danger" in two areas, Khamis Mushait and Abha, before lifting them soon after.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
That is why researchers and local officials around Nice are doing more than improving alerts.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
The largest comparable number in 2022 was the week beginning 27 February when there were around 66 alerts.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
A soldier alerts my mother that she’s needed in the first- aid station.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
Residents said they had been alerted to the emergency by neighbours, who went along the corridors banging on doors and telling people to get out of the building.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
After a Santa Cruz paleontologist was alerted of the find, he raced to the beach only to find the tooth gone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
As he fled the officers, he alerted his friends at home, who called 911.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The company said it alerted the collection agency in question as well as the credit bureaus to the mistake.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
Marking the place where the villagers were killed, the shrine alerted future generations to the false sense of safety offered by the hill.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Activists have been building maps alerting people where the cameras are.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
As a result, cells displayed fewer signals capable of alerting T cells to cancer-related or viral proteins.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Around 2 p.m., the sheriff’s department lead supervisor on the scene texted Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, alerting him to a missing-person case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
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
Or alerting anyone that she was interested in it, she realized, thinking about those men who must know she’s Surly Wombat.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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