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alert

[uh-lurt] / əˈlɜrt /






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This is how you raise the alert if you have a suspected case.’

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026

The company agreed to donate more than 50 plate readers, free of charge for six months, to the wealthy Palisades area, where residents and law enforcement officials were on high alert about potential theft.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

The Department of Defense's list aims to alert American organisations to the risks of doing business with the Chinese firms, but their inclusion does not mean they are immediately banned.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Big-words alert: Edwards Lifesciences is expanding beyond its monopoly in TAVR, or transcatheter aortic valve replacement, into fast-growing TMTT, or transcatheter mitral and tricuspid therapies.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Pita’s words, her conviction that the donkey could speak and she could understand him, made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up to alert.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall




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