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alert

[uh-lurt] / əˈlɜrt /






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AI is increasingly absorbing repetitive, lower-level tasks such as alert triage, log review and data enrichment.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

There were other electronic warnings designed to alert the pilots to danger while landing, investigators reported.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

Amodei's alert came just as Altman said he would not pursue an initial public stock offering this year, saying it would be "ill advised" given the swirling safety concerns.

From Barron's Sep. 14, 2026

Already, some school districts are on high alert.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2026

It’s a way of saying, “Be alert for the unexpected.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

On Tuesday, Saudi authorities issued a series of brief security alerts for incoming projectiles in a number of western areas, including Mecca and Jeddah, the kingdom's second largest city.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

Saudi Arabia issued attack alerts Tuesday for Mecca -- the holy city's first of the Middle East war -- and Jeddah and Taif governorates, before quickly cancelling them.

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

The California attorney general in February opened a civil rights investigation into potential disparities in the fire response, looking particularly at delays in evacuation alerts and resource allocation between west and east Altadena.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2026

Could Pavlovian ping alerts be fueling a collective attention deficit disorder?

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

“I set my glasses to receive media alerts about us. We must’ve made the news again.”

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

The company said it had alerted law enforcement, but declined to discuss the extortion threat.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

The group also alerted AFP to additional inauthentic video reports that emerged Monday, seeking to discredit MS NOW's debunking of the celebrity deepfakes.

From Barron's Sep. 14, 2026

She said she had been alerted by her next-door neighbour at around 04:30 on Saturday.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

Raman shot back, saying she had alerted the mayor’s office about the nuisance property 10 months earlier.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

Sitti was furious he hadn’t alerted her right away.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman apologized to the people of Tumbler Ridge in April for not alerting police to the suspect’s activity on ChatGPT.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

Far-right activist Laura Loomer, who has feuded publicly with Yiannopoulos, celebrated his detention and claimed credit for alerting federal authorities to his immigration status in multiple posts on X.

From Salon Aug. 29, 2026

About 40 notice boards alerting visitors to blue-green algae blooms, which can produce toxins that make humans ill and be fatal to pets, will be installed at Windermere, in the Lake District.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

As a result, cells displayed fewer signals capable of alerting T cells to cancer-related or viral proteins.

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

“If we can draw this group into the woods, we might sneak through without alerting the others.”

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan




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