spoiler alert

noun

: a reviewer's warning that a plot spoiler is about to be revealed

Examples of spoiler alert in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Historical spoiler alert: Every one of the cases included in Homicide end with the killers behind bars, but heart-rending interviews with the victims’ families and friends emphasize the chasm that remains between a conviction and justice. Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2024 The next day the verdict was read, and — spoiler alert! Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024 In the teaser for the remake (above), another family of rebellious youth take on an elderly caretaker who, spoiler alert, kicks the bucket. Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2024 The dating experiment started with 30 local men and women in the pods, but (spoiler alert) five couples left the pods together. Chyna Blackmon, Charlotte Observer, 14 Feb. 2024 The new run of episodes will pick up one year after the end of Season Two when (spoiler alert), comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) graciously fired her writing partner Ava (Hannah Einbinder) so Hannah could start building a career of her own. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024 Plus, the feature’s collapse doesn’t just impact this film, but a new potential franchise led by star Dakota Johnson that Sony had hoped to spin out (spoiler alert: her character is connected to Peter Parker, whose birth is documented in the movie). James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024 Oh, and here’s the kicker and a spoiler alert: The leader (again) in our annual rankings of SoCal’s teams might as well be considered Japan’s team, too. Jim Alexander, Orange County Register, 30 Jan. 2024 Where traditional databases are argued to have limited computational ability for temporal and unstructured data (spoiler alert: that’s what makes up most datasets), discussion around vector databases has come to the fore in recent months. Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1982, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of spoiler alert was in 1982

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“Spoiler alert.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spoiler%20alert. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.

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