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Minutes before an airplane hit the water, an alert would go out.

France is on high alert this week after a series of attacks by loners.

I also want to alert you to the broader circumstances of my incarceration.

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you haven't seen season five episode eight of  The Walking Dead, “Coda”

They walk closely together, tense, and alert in their movements.

It was Carmena, every nerve of her loyal nature on the alert to baffle this pursuer of Alessandro and Ramona.

Then, his hand resting on the handle of the cab-door, this expression suddenly changed to one of alert suspicion.

He is small, alert, brimful of jokes and of years; seventy they say, but he neither looks it nor acts it.

But his eyes and ears were alert, and he was the first to hear the advent of a large body of horses along the main road.

The almost lazy naturalness and simplicity faded gradually out of it, revealing the alert and seductive woman of the world.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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