alert
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Echoing his sentiments, Valdemaqueda mayor Ricardo Meneses added that "we can't let our guard down and we're on high alert because now is the time to stop the fire".
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
The JMA initially issued a tsunami alert, but withdrew it at around 6:10 pm.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
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
“I saw the alert about your brother and I thought I’d look for him. I know he likes the playground.”
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
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Caine, who is described as more cautious, often alerts the White House to the “second and third order consequences” of military options, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
It has issued amber heat health alerts, external for much of eastern England that come into force on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
The UK Health Security Agency has issued amber heat health alerts for the East Midlands, East of England, London and the south-east from 09:00 BST on 29 July until 09:00 BST on 30 July.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 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
A humming noise alerts me to the fact that the electric current has been switched on.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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In two separate incidents, it alerted guards to men standing on rooftops who were able to be talked down, chief product officer Yuka Suzuki said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Ahmed, who was packing the car up, said he was alerted to them drowning and rushed back to the beach.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 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
Their presence in Africa would astonish us, if the presence of Indonesian people on Madagascar had not already alerted us to Africa’s prehistoric Asian connection.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
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
The driver who found the boys said he fed them before alerting the police.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
But alerting just those few houses wasn’t enough to tip the alarm.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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