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alarm

[uh-lahrm] / əˈlɑrm /




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By this point, Lee recalls being shattered but said the adrenaline spurred him on to raise the alarm.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The couple's daughter, Cheryl, raised the alarm when her regular daily call to her parents went unanswered that evening.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Tech CEOs privately questioned Amodei for sounding AI alarm bells.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Perhaps the sensible position lies somewhere between Ms. Noonan’s alarm and Mr. Jenkins’s restraint: Be cautious about the frontier, but decisive about responsible adoption.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

And Marco thought they’d lost their boat, so they couldn’t raise the alarm or even leave the island.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

The changes cut the typical number of alarms per patient each day by 75% in the pediatric ICU and by 82% in the cardiac unit, with researchers finding no increase in emergencies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The alarms keep patients from getting sleep and overwhelm nurses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

One resident near the intelligence headquarters said the blast was loud enough to trigger car alarms.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Researchers are now making alarms smarter, more useful and less annoying, reports Laura Landro.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

For the first time, she seemed to notice the black smoke and the ringing fire alarms.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

For now, China generally seems less alarmed by the types of risks U.S. frontier labs are warning about, Winter-Levy said, but that is partly due to Chinese companies running behind.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

Taylor admitted his mum was "rather alarmed" by their performance but she admired Freddie's courtesy and style.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

AI researchers are particularly alarmed at the threat the tech poses to cybersecurity, and the latest round of warnings prompted a big day for shares of cybersecurity firms Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Americans appear increasingly alarmed by the technology,with 7 in 10 polled in March opposing local construction of data centers that power AI technology, according to a Gallup survey.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Now that the Manager had gone, I was not particularly alarmed.

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl

The aim is to provide “actionable and meaningful information” for nurses “so you don’t have a system that’s alarming and people are ignoring it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The La Verne battery fire is much smaller in scale but nonetheless alarming for those who had to leave their homes or deal with the closure of schools due to the potential of hazardous fumes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

After being shuttled in less than half an hour between aggressive air conditioning, a muggy Chicago street and the temperate library, the cup had begun producing condensation at an alarming rate.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Or is it, as The Guardian's Tom Garry puts it, "alarming" for the hopes of the home nations?

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

It was alarming, and at once I realized why Mami always told me to be más disimulada when I stared at people, which meant that I should pretend I wasn’t interested.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago




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