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siren

noun as in alarm

noun as in seductress

noun as in signal

Strong matches

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First comes the warning, that disembodied voice over the tannoy: "Your attention please. Air siren in the city. Please move to the shelter on the minus second floor."

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On songs like “Slushy” and “Predictable Girl,” she intertwines a menagerie of robotic, spacey sirens with tinges of Jersey club beats and ’90s-influenced R&B chords.

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The day of the fire, he said, “there were no sirens, no real warnings, just wind, smoke and confusion.”

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Walk the streets of Kyiv and you'll pass a sea of tired faces - people's eyes are red from a lack of sleep, their rest broken by the air raid sirens.

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Evacuation sirens blared, and loudspeakers warned anyone within earshot to leave the area.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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