alarm
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Public health officials are sounding the alarm after an unvaccinated Amtrak passenger who traveled across the U.S., including a stop at Union Station last weekend, was hospitalized with measles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The FA has been keen to stress that this assessment is a standard process, rather than an indication of wider concern or alarm about England's third-place finish.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
At a brewery in the River Arts District, patrons listened with alarm as a hacker known as “Colonel Panic” described Flock cameras and governments “perfecting the art of watching you.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
So-called bond king Jeffrey Gundlach is sounding alarm bells over the artificial-intelligence trade, saying he “wants out of the epicenter” of the hottest investment themes in decades.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
To be ready to raise the first alarm.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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How he was able to waste away without anyone — including school officials or the county’s child welfare agency — raising alarms remains an unanswered question.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
The president defended light regulation and stressed the need to keep the lead as tech executives are raising alarms about breakneck development.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
That employees at a company with a reputation for AI safety are raising alarms could lead investors to question its branding, Martin said, adding it’s important to remember the posts don’t represent all employees.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Officials are sounding alarms about the potential health impacts related to this week’s oppressive humidity and intense heat, that’s only expected to rise, across Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Car horns were beeping from alarms that had short-circuited.”
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Some CEOs and energy advisers say they have grown alarmed in recent weeks as the conflict has picked back up, with ships and energy infrastructure being targeted in both directions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Americans appear increasingly alarmed by the technology,with 7 in 10 polled in March opposing local construction of data centers that power AI technology, according to a Gallup survey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The article—by reporters Jonathan Swan, Adam Entous, and Maggie Haberman—adds that those commanders are alarmed by how much the war has depleted U.S. weapons stockpiles, including long-range missiles and interceptors to thwart air attacks.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
On top of that, Kedrosky is alarmed, he said, at the model convergence and diminishing returns of large language models’ performance.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Increasingly alarmed that the situation was escalating out of control, the chief phoned the mayor-elect, even though Grabarek would not assume office until Monday.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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This week: Everyone is talking about A.I. safety as OpenAI shares more alarming security breaches.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2026
While the analogy between recent months and the top of the dot-com bubble is stark and alarming, it’s not the only evidence pointing to the downside risk of exuberant earnings-growth assumptions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
However alarming the warnings might be, few seem to be taking them as a reason to abandon the AI trade that is responsible for much of the U.S. stock market’s multiyear rally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
By the time Alan had his operation, the cancer had spread to his lymph nodes and the nodule "had grown at an alarming rate", according to the lung specialist.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
“For, I really am not,” he added, with his son’s smile, “an alarming personage.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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