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alert

[uh-lurt] / əˈlɜrt /






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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

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

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

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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