red flag

Example Sentences

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Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli cruised to his fifth successive win in a chaotic Monaco Grand Prix, which featured crashes and a red flag.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

He’s waving a red flag about the very real chance that SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI will create an “impending chokepoint.”

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

But the sheer size of SpaceX’s expected offering, and Chief Executive Elon Musk’s expressed desire to have significant retail ownership, might make that less of a red flag this time around.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

If your sketchy adviser suggested paying the tax for the conversion out of the $1 million itself, I’d raise another red flag.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

The National Weather Service had issued a red flag warning for the Sierra Nevada range today, as they did almost every other day in the fall.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz