alerted
Example Sentences
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The company said it had alerted law enforcement, but declined to discuss the extortion threat.
From The Wall Street Journal β 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 β Sep. 14, 2026
Residents said they had been alerted to the emergency by neighbours, who went along the corridors banging on doors and telling people to get out of the building.
From BBC β Sep. 13, 2026
Around 5:20 p.m., officials were alerted to a Cessna plane that caught fire when it crash-landed onto one of three airstrips at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 8, 2026
The asthma was under control, but the doctor alerted me to something else—Malia’s body mass index, a measure of health that factors together height, weight, and age, was beginning to creep up.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
