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That may seem like a small change, but it’s a yellow flag for people who follow these things closely.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
"As a medical specialist, I would always say bloating is my red flag feature," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
I suspect that the detector would flag the most uninvolved “Write this for me” slop but not the text that involves a lot of human molding.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
He sees a future where the company will flag in advance that your flight is likely to be delayed because of storms, then offers another itinerary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The day dawned clear, but by the time I got the flag set a cold mist had drifted across the island.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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Soon after Arday was hired at Cambridge, a retired British professor called David Harris read Arday’s work and flagged a series of apparent errors, which appeared to include passages taken from other works without citation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The US president's envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner this week flagged "very positive and active conversations".
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
On the earnings call, Cerebras flagged that it was continuing to work on scaling wafer supply, manufacturing capacity and data-center capacity.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
The trend in younger and younger children becoming a cause of concern for Prevent has been flagged for years by counter-terrorism policing.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
A policeman flagged us down as we approached.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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“Ballmer was the perfect deep-pocket partner to fund Catona’s flagging operations and lend legitimacy to Catona’s carbon credit business,” says the amended complaint viewed by The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Her efforts led the antivirus software Kaspersky to begin flagging the tools known as stalkerware as a privacy threat to its customers instead of labeling it as benign.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
AI can be especially adept at flagging potential rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases, which may otherwise go undetected for years because doctors don’t often see them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
"But that does not mean anything if Croatia does not have the capacity," Fugas said, flagging the necessary pipeline upgrade for any new demand.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Through the sound of the shivering glass I could hear the “ting” of the gold, as some of the sovereigns fell on the flagging.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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