alert
Example Sentences
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No whistles alerting targets to the officers’ presence.
From Los Angeles Times
Often bare-chested or draped in the wax-printed fabric popular across West Africa, hair shaped into a crisp Afro, saxophone in hand, eyes alert with intensity, he commanded a large band of more than 20 musicians.
From BBC
Google recently released a tool to detect suspicious patterns during phone calls, alerting phone owners to potential fraud in real-time.
However, MAS said it would stay alert to supply shocks—including those triggered by geopolitical events—that could lift imported costs in the city-state, which relies heavily on imports of key staples.
MINNEAPOLIS—When Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara received an alert from dispatch Saturday of another shooting involving a federal officer, the shock hit hard.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
