alerted
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Orantes also expressed frustration with the handling of her father’s arrest — to which federal authorities had clearly alerted some media, who were brought along for the raid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Senegal last month alerted international bondholders and Chinese state-owned banks that it would need debt relief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Sheila Miller, a spokesperson at the Bend Police Department, told journalists that officers were alerted to respond to a critical scene at 1:00 pm local time, and that police arrived about two minutes later.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Emergency services were alerted, and the teenage boy and the man now under investigation with him were found a block away a short time later.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
But publicity generated by the case alerted the world’s reinsurance industry to avoid North Korea, and fraud wound down.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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