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alarm-bell
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alarm-bellnoun
A bell rung to signal danger or emergency.
alarm-bellnoun
A bell which is rung to indicate a pre-arranged time, especially to mark a desired moment for waking up, performing a specific action etc.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of alarm-bell in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of alarm-bell in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of alarm-bell in a Sentence
It just happened almost overnight just in the last month. And so, it’s not a failure, but an alarm bell went off. I don’t think anybody anticipated that this was going to be as rapidly spreading as it did.
This cauldron of extremism and disinformation is being propelled by social media, it's created a lot of kinetic energy that is now a part of more mainstream politics. This is both an early warning system as well as an alarm bell for fires that are already going off. Acceptance of results is not going to be tolerated anymore, unless they align with what this sector wants.
Republican Representative Bruce Babin:
The terrorist attack in Paris by militant Islamists is a loud clanging alarm bell to Congress and the American people warning us why we must block Obama’s reckless and foolish plan to allow tens of thousands of Syrian refugees into the U.S..
It's more than an alarm bell, it's an air raid siren.
No one should ring the alarm bell that these protests will cause civil war, they (leaders) have made the institutions dysfunctional under the pretext of preserving stability but collecting garbage, providing water, electricity must not be neglected.
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