alarm
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An alarm can be heard blaring as the helicopter appears to be quickly losing altitude.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The UK's most senior soldier has sounded the alarm.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
At a brewery in the River Arts District, patrons listened with alarm as a hacker known as “Colonel Panic” described Flock cameras and governments “perfecting the art of watching you.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
So-called bond king Jeffrey Gundlach is sounding alarm bells over the artificial-intelligence trade, saying he “wants out of the epicenter” of the hottest investment themes in decades.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
The disapproving way she’s looking at me sets off alarm bells.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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That employees at a company with a reputation for AI safety are raising alarms could lead investors to question its branding, Martin said, adding it’s important to remember the posts don’t represent all employees.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Officials are sounding alarms about the potential health impacts related to this week’s oppressive humidity and intense heat, that’s only expected to rise, across Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Just over a month prior, China had test-fired a submarine ballistic missile with a dummy nuclear warhead with the capacity to reach the U.S. from Chinese coastal waters, raising alarms across the Pacific region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
An internal CalMac investigation later found the crew should have avoided using the gas systems until they had identified the cause of the alarms and unusual noise.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
“Turn her off!” someone managed to shout over the alarms.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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Americans appear increasingly alarmed by the technology,with 7 in 10 polled in March opposing local construction of data centers that power AI technology, according to a Gallup survey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The article—by reporters Jonathan Swan, Adam Entous, and Maggie Haberman—adds that those commanders are alarmed by how much the war has depleted U.S. weapons stockpiles, including long-range missiles and interceptors to thwart air attacks.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Cembalest was also alarmed by the rapidly mounting margin debt accumulated by retail traders that was turbocharging the rally, and the market risks from the multiplication of leveraged ETFs on the sector.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
"I wasn't alarmed by it, because, you know, he was a teacher and teachers are supposed to be trustworthy. I trusted him, I really did."
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
The woman’s voice goes from compassionate to alarmed as she takes in the fallen girl with the chopped hair.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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This week: Everyone is talking about A.I. safety as OpenAI shares more alarming security breaches.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2026
While the analogy between recent months and the top of the dot-com bubble is stark and alarming, it’s not the only evidence pointing to the downside risk of exuberant earnings-growth assumptions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
However alarming the warnings might be, few seem to be taking them as a reason to abandon the AI trade that is responsible for much of the U.S. stock market’s multiyear rally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
By the time Alan had his operation, the cancer had spread to his lymph nodes and the nodule "had grown at an alarming rate", according to the lung specialist.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
In conversation he listened with an intensity that was almost alarming, as if Belknap were the most fascinating man in the world, not just an elderly uncle visiting from Big Foot Prairie.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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