raise/sound the alarm
idiom
: to warn people
Economists have raised/sounded the alarm about a possible recession.
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Motion sensors will sound the alarm if movement is detected while the bike is locked, and if that doesn't put off would-be opportunists, real-time GPS tracking is included too.
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Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 1 Oct. 2024
The review lays bare a messy patchwork of rules around the use of generative AI in politics, as experts increasingly sound the alarm on the evolving technology's power to sway or disenfranchise voters.
—Ivana Saric, Axios, 22 Sep. 2024
The recent trio of deaths resulting from people falling off the canyon’s rim could raise the alarm about safety at the canyon’s overlooks.
—Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 13 Sep. 2024
Not-so-artificial concerns Big Tech and a former big gun in the Trump administration are partnering up to raise the alarm about how artificial intelligence, with the wrong inputs, poses major risks to the world.
—Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Sep. 2024
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Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 1 Oct. 2024
The review lays bare a messy patchwork of rules around the use of generative AI in politics, as experts increasingly sound the alarm on the evolving technology's power to sway or disenfranchise voters.
—Ivana Saric, Axios, 22 Sep. 2024
The recent trio of deaths resulting from people falling off the canyon’s rim could raise the alarm about safety at the canyon’s overlooks.
—Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 13 Sep. 2024
Not-so-artificial concerns Big Tech and a former big gun in the Trump administration are partnering up to raise the alarm about how artificial intelligence, with the wrong inputs, poses major risks to the world.
—Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Sep. 2024
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