siren
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The constant air raids are a huge problem for businesses, many of which have to shut their doors every time a siren wails.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The interview was then interrupted by another siren.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
“If there’s a sudden wave of positive Brilliant Earth content on here, it might not be coincidental,” a moderator warned the community, adding a siren emoji to the post.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“If there’s a sudden wave of positive Brilliant Earth content on here, it might not be coincidental,” a moderator warned the Reddit community devoted to jewelry, accompanying the message with a siren emoji.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
And then I hear another screech—the screech of a police siren.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
New York City residents live with an ambient soundtrack of emergency sirens, subway screeches and I’m-walking-here arguments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
But so are the sirens, in many tellings, along with the sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
Ghizlan Saad, a Bahraini mother of two, said the sirens woke her family in the middle of the night, "bringing back memories of the attacks, of the fear and apprehension".
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
They heard sirens, then dozens of police cars arriving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
The man paced and prayed and sirens wailed in the distance.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
Vocabulary lists containing siren
"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry (1775)
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"The War Works Hard" by Dunya Mikhail
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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