alert
Example Sentences
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Police said they were alerted to the incident at the farm on Chelford Road by the fire and rescue service.
From BBC
As a result, newer, more subtle technologies for monitoring—in-home radar instead of cameras, wearables that provide other benefits and only trigger alerts when there’s a real emergency—are gaining in popularity.
OpenAI said it did not alert authorities to the account because its usage did not meet its threshold of a credible or imminent plan for serious physical harm to others.
From BBC
Pham said he belongs to a regional dealer network in which members alert one another when burglaries happen nearby, sharing suspect descriptions and stolen inventory lists.
From Los Angeles Times
Online platforms have long debated how to balance questions of privacy for their users with public safety in their decisions to alert certain users to law enforcement.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
