alarming
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The implications are alarming, since there currently are four industry groupings within the S&P 1,500 index that have trailing two-year alphas of at least 100 percentage points.
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
A particularly alarming example depicts the two parties through the window of a cafe, smiling together over a glass of wine.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
These damaging notions are doubly alarming when one remembers that the target audience for this publication is so young.
From Salon • May 8, 2026
An astute 'cricket brain' and an extraordinary gift to hit sixes is clearly an alarming prospect for the rest of the game, which must now find a way to respond.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
“Then you told me, two years later, that on the night that Voldemort returned to his body, he made a most illuminating and alarming statement to his Death Eaters. ‘
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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