alert
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They honked the horn nine times to alert others nearby.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
OpenAI banned these accounts but didn’t alert authorities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
The problems began to appear around the same time as an alert from Amazon Web Services that some servers were facing issues, however this has since been resolved, external.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The results of that sample are then reported to local health departments who alert state and federal health agencies if they identify a cluster of people diagnosed with the same food-borne illness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
“Are you trying to alert everyone in the neighborhood?”
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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The south-west, south-east, London, East of England, West and East Midlands and Yorkshire and The Humber are all under the alerts from 9:00 BST on Tuesday 28 July until 9:00 BST on Friday 31 July.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
According to the NCA, such alerts are made to law enforcement "to potential instances of money laundering".
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
When the fire alerts sounded on telephones, "I thought everything was going to burn, the house and everything," she said at the sports hall, where they sat dozing and eating snacks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
"And then the alerts started to sound and I evacuated."
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Me and Carlos had this stupid joke that whenever we were going to a party, we would set our text message alerts to a crazy sound effect.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
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His potential availability has alerted Arsenal, who are among the clubs to have internally explored exploiting the contractual impasse.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Dobrindt said that officers at train stations, airports and Germany's borders had been alerted to be on the lookout for Ballout.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
The Mariners had alerted him after the first pick — infielder Eli Willits, by the Washington Nationals — that they would take him with the third, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
His comrades now say that he never made any specific threats, adding they alerted authorities out of an abundance of caution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
I’m alerted by, I don’t know, a soft shift of sand or maybe just a change in the air currents.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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Meta Platforms Inc. is alerting thousands of employees that they’re being laid off, part of a previously announced restructuring aimed at reducing costs while the company invests heavily in artificial intelligence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
"We drove all night," said his cousin, Paola Chacón, whose brother had received the phone call first alerting the family that Serrano Lopez had returned to Venezuela.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
He added, however, that AI agents could prove useful in alerting Wikipedia's community of millions of editors to certain niche news that would otherwise be missed.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
The carriages’ union blamed the Central Park Conservancy for not alerting them to the potential health hazard for the horses.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
Supposedly, if they tossed one in the air, it would shoot upward in a streak of white phosphorus, alerting the Argo II that the team was in trouble.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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