fair warning

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This raises the fundamental issue of fair warning, which was essential to the founding generation that enacted the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

Squish factor: The bathroom at Leroy's is tiny, so fair warning, you might want to avoid it.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2023

Customers like Hult didn’t have enough fair warning or information about how to get assistance, or to sign up for spreading unmanageable spikes over multiple bills.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2023

Noting infrastructure crippled by extreme heat to homes damaged in wildfires, Sadiq Khan warned that "no one will be able to claim with any credibility that we were not given fair warning."

From Reuters • Oct. 3, 2022

One of the reasons Eisman’s report disturbed so many is that he’d failed to give the companies he’d insulted fair warning.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis