fair warning

Example Sentences

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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

Another fair warning: these babies are worth the pain and more.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 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

My fault, of course—I should have given the girl some fair warning.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir