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  1. Early Warning

    Early Warning is a song by Australian rock band Baby Animals. It was released in April 1991 as their debut single from their debut studio album Baby Animals (1991). The song peaked at number 21 on the ARIA Singles Chart. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1992, the song was nominated for Single of the Year and Song of the Year, but lost to "Treaty" by Yothu Yindi.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. early warning

    Early notification of the launch or approach of unknown weapons or weapons carriers. Also called EW. See also attack assessment; tactical warning.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of early warning in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of early warning in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of early warning in a Sentence

  1. Martha Joynt Kumar:

    Perhaps her most important experiences were : 1) serving as State Department spokesperson and 2) learning the rhythms of a White House during the Obama years, she learned in those years to listen to reporters as an early warning system for political and policy trouble the White House team may not have spotted.

  2. Dyann Wirth:

    It's very important we recognize that progress has stalled, the countries reporting a rise in cases are an early warning.

  3. Hans Kristensen:

    We have never been in a nuclear war where escalation is about to happen and early-warning systems are poised to look for signs of surprise nuclear strikes. In such a scenario, a decision by a military power to launch a conventional attack - but the adversary expects and mistakenly interprets it as a nuclear attack - could contribute to an overreaction that escalates the crisis.

  4. Richard Allen:

    MyShake cannot replace traditional seismic networks like those run by the U.S. Geological Survey, but we think MyShake can make earthquake early warning faster and more accurate in areas that have a traditional seismic network, and can provide life-saving early warning in countries that have no seismic network.

  5. June Wayne:

    The arts are the rain forests of society. They produce the oxygen of freedom, and they are the early warning system when freedom is in danger.

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