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alert

[uh-lurt] / əˈlɜrt /






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The US government was "coordinating with appropriate Russian authorities on a response," it said, advising people: "Avoid the area, stay alert, and avoid crowds."

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

Christine Peck, owner of the Sock Monkey Kids Shop in Cape May County, N.J., received a motion alert from the store’s Ring camera one day in August 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

None of this is cause for regulatory panic, but government can do more to alert private actors about threats and how to defend and respond.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Someone in the area can be heard using whistles, a tool that some activists have employed to alert people when ICE is in the area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Captain Prince was on deck now, grim-jawed, alert.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

Those firms’ automatic alerts began to flood the offices of their clients, many of the world’s biggest crypto investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Bitcoin dropped by around 5% following the alerts.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Despite the daily cellphone alerts that warn residents to remain indoors until danger passes, people interviewed emphasized a show-must-go-on disposition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Air raid alerts, which sound around the clock and can last hours, complicate repairs, he added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

When I stumble out of my bedroom, still in my nightclothes, a whacking sound alerts me that Mama is on a cleaning tear.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

He had already alerted a Norwegian court with jurisdiction over Svalbard that Wikborg would file an urgent request to authorize the ship’s seizure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

The charges against Strange arose after studio employees alerted the FBI of the theft in January 2025, alleging the unfinished releases were shared to a number of online platforms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 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

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

Battlefield drone operators also have good reason to keep the noise down, to avoid alerting the enemy of the approach of their unmanned vehicles.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

He broke into a different office by mistake, setting off an alarm and alerting the Cambridge Police Department, who arrested him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Its presence can serve as a warning signal, alerting the immune system that a virus may have entered the cell.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

In February, Canadian law enforcement named Jesse Van Rootselaar as the suspect in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting, months after OpenAI employees had considered alerting law enforcement about Van Rootselaar’s interactions with the company’s chatbot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Was it stealing, to wait as Tree-ear had for more rice to fall before alerting the man that his rice bag was leaking?

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park


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