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red flag

noun as in warning signal

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You’ll learn how to research who posted the video and spot any red flags about the uploader.

The celebrities touting the app to their millions of followers have sent up red flags to health experts.

From Time

I’m still under 35, so it’s not like I’m at a point where there were major red flags for me to be able to get pregnant again.

From Vox

A red flag meant that there had been no food at the protest center.

From Eater

These days, price continues to be a major hurdle — especially during a time when paying $1,000 and up on a phone is a major red flag for many.

The bigger the claim made in the headline, the bigger the red flag it raises for me.

Russians with us and red flag too, but you still sit on your sofa.

Among pilots this raised no red flag: it indicated an enthusiastic professional proud of his skills.

Lack of video in the Israeli attack was “a big red flag” that initial reports may have been false.

This should have been a red flag to everyone, regardless of what they thought of Fox News.

Thus shall we see the destinies of this country guided under the orange and red flag.

It seemed an exceedingly long time before the expected "extra" arrived, and when it did come it bore another red flag.

It is supposed that at Bunker Hill our troops carried a red flag, with a pine tree on a white field in the corner.

Tommy had come out, and had hailed the man who walked in front of the machine with a red flag.

Only the waving of the red flag of Socialism could rouse in him what seemed to us others a certain savageness of intolerance.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to red flag, such as: casus belli, delicate subject, red light, red rag, and sore point.

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

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