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alarm

[uh-lahrm] / əˈlɑrm /




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Conservationists reacted to the latest announcement with alarm.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

Tech workers and activists have staged protests this month throughout the area, sounding the alarm that AI will become tougher to control as it grows more powerful.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Executives at OpenAI and Anthropic are sounding the alarm about the rise of inexpensive AI, including some of China’s latest models, suggesting they present unacceptable security risks without regulation.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

It meant an 04:00 BST alarm and, for some of the other 20 or so volunteers I joined at Calshot Beach near Southampton, even earlier.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

The alarm isn’t sounding in this room, for some reason.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

It was blamed in part on the building’s highly flammable cladding and lack of alarms, sprinklers and a fire escape.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

She has four alarms to wake up, one to get dressed, another to pack her work bag, and so on.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

Some people, Johnston added, have medical alert devices, smoke alarms and home alarm systems that rely on the copper networks to work.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

The quake was felt as far away as the Colombian capital of Bogota, where alarms sounded and some residents evacuated buildings as a precaution.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

It was funny—we would walk into one of those stores with alarms and bells and electronic wires on the leather goods—you know the type I mean.

From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper

IMPERIAL, Calif.—Christopher Scurries was alarmed to learn last fall that California’s largest data center was being planned behind his home in this hot desert town.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

“We weren’t seeing many soils with concerning elevated levels of metal, so gardeners should not be too alarmed when these things happen.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

She and her husband, she noted, were alarmed to find their son had encountered misogynist influencer Andrew Tate while watching sports online.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

The Saudis, whose bases and airspace were needed by the U.S., were alarmed by the operation.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

“Yes?” he said, not the slightest bit alarmed that I had just landed from the blue onto his boat.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

China’s recent progress in the AI race is alarming top executives.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

"Recent reports indicate that the number of Batswana being misled into such arrangements is rising at an alarming rate," the international relations ministry said.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

Although this may sound alarming, a number of poisonous plants can be found in ordinary gardens in the UK, with people completely unaware of their dangerous potential.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

Justice Brett Kavanaugh tried to split the baby, and Dahlia and Mark explain why his approach is more alarming than it first appears.

From Slate Jun. 30, 2026

But a blackbird, singing undisturbed on the outskirts of the wood, showed that there was nothing alarming there, and in the other direction, along the brook, all was plain to be seen, empty and quiet.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams




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