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siren

noun as in alarm

noun as in seductress

noun as in signal

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That same day, at 2:15 p.m., sirens wailed on the streets of New York City.

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A rational administration would take that as a warning siren and reconsider its policies.

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The officer, Bland said, was driving with their siren on and emergency lights flashing when they hit Estrada.

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But the tornado was growing noisier and angrier as it blew in from the fields, and the siren was quickly lost to the howling winds.

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Their work moves past familiar ideas of the body in transition, gleefully embracing the messiness of the queer experience and refusing the easy siren call of visibility.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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