alarm

First thing I do is turn my alarm off.

The prospect of a Russian base on the Red Sea alarms American security officials, who have been jockeying with Beijing and Moscow for years over their competing military aspirations in Africa.

You may as well forget the early-morning alarms and concentrate on the snooker.

The label said it had "a duty to speak up" and "encourage public discourse", because AI is proliferating at an "alarming rate and substantially outpacing regulation".

The company's approach meant thousands were left with devices which were not connected to alarm monitoring centres.