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

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

These corporations can’t say they didn’t have fair warning.

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2022

“I have given you fair warning, Lannister. Guard your tongue or lose it. Kingdoms are at hazard here. Our lives, our names, our honor. This is no game we’re playing for your amusement.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin