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

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

Speaking of tears, there are going to be some here today — fair warning.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 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