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on the alert

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Wiktionary

  1. on the alertadjective

    Very attentive, or vigilant

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. on the alert

    In a state of vigilance or activity.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of on the alert in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of on the alert in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of on the alert in a Sentence

  1. Richard Richards:

    Anyone opposed to ballot security obviously must be supportive of election fraud, we would have been cheated out of that race if we hadn't been alert.

  2. Tim Macy:

    Gun Owners of America devised a plan to slow things down over that three-day holiday to allow us, the National Rifle Association, other gun organizations to alert their members to call in and absolutely bury the United States Senate phone lines, email access and everything else with the threat of' You're going to lose all your races if you do this,' at the end of the three-day weekend, even the Republicans in the U.S. Senate who were saying' We've got to cave on something' -- all of a sudden Gun Owners of America backbones turned into titanium.

  3. Carol Edwards:

    I really do think it’s the tip of the iceberg. This is the door swinging wide open, and now we need to collaborate with those in the science world and figure out where we can take this, there’s been a lot of chatter, even in the very beginning of this project, talking about what other diseases they could do. We’ve talked about TB, we’ve talked about flu A and B, possibly for this next flu season, seeing if we can get the dogs to alert on that.

  4. The FCC:

    While other warning officers understand that this is a drill, the warning officer at the alert origination terminal claimed to believe, in a written statement provided to HI-EMA [ Emergency Management Agency ] that this was a real emergency, not a drill.

  5. Danvers Baillieu:

    Obviously if you give information to a website, no technical solution is going to help you, it’s really just a question of being alert when you’re online and not handing over your information to websites you don’t trust or [information] that isn’t necessary for the tasks that you’re trying to carry out.

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