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alert

[uh-lurt] / əˈlɜrt /






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Cliché alert: The two become very close and things become very messy.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

I have not received a recall alert for broccoli.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

Millions sent wildfire emergency phone alert warning against 'any activity that could start a fire'

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

It also detailed a timeline of events given by the flight crew, who said they received a "high vibration" engine alert during the climb.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Brooklyn was still groggy as they walked from their hotel to Olympus, but by the time they’d gone through security, her adrenaline had kicked in and she was alert and ready to go.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

At a certain point, the alerts begin to blur together.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

A drone flying toward the Lithuanian capital Vilnius the following day prompted air-raid alerts in the city.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Heat health alerts warn the public and medical professionals when periods of hot or cold weather pose a threat to health.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

The software also sends reminder emails and phone alerts to prompt people to keep up with categorizing transactions that are automatically pulled in or inputting new ones manually.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

Satellites register changes in the buoys’ position and transmit the data back to a base station, which issues alerts.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Soon after, they alerted police to the discovery and explained that keeping it for themselves was not an option.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

The FAA review found that an air-traffic controller alerted Marine One about the American Airlines jet, which was taking off for Pensacola, Fla., but didn’t notify the plane’s pilots of the helicopter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Montrose Search and Rescue and the Altadena Mountain Rescue Team were alerted to the victim, who was in the Bear Canyon area but whose exact location was unknown, officials stated.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

"When platforms are alerted to terrorist content, they must act," she told a press conference in Sydney.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

Their presence in Africa would astonish us, if the presence of Indonesian people on Madagascar had not already alerted us to Africa’s prehistoric Asian connection.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

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

“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

“She knows the word, of course, and that was the alerting part of it, but that second little bit was because she likes it, wants to eat one.”

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen




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