alerted
Example Sentences
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The company said it alerted the collection agency in question as well as the credit bureaus to the mistake.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
Hospitals in the territory had been alerted, to provide any needed medical attention, it added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
I alerted the organizations involved in rescuing monuments threatened by war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The police were alerted to the theft in the evening of 14 August 2024 when a retail assistant at Singapore's Changi Airport realised a blue denim jacket was missing from a display mannequin.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
"That's your father when he was your age. We alerted the police in Chennai city. They're too busy to search for every poor child who goes missing, but it helped that we filed a report."
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
