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How to use the word alarming in a Sentence?

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Right now, we have a system set up. As the data comes, it is distributed to a network of people to look at both on an immediate-phase – ‘Hey, is there anything really alarming to look at’ – and those smaller numbers that really matter to long-term health.

Kurt Kohler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even more alarming, 98 individuals on the terror watchlist were apprehended trying to enter the U.S. between ports of entry in the last year, our adversaries know they can enter our country through our failed border.

Senate Homeland Security

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Over the last year, we’re also witnessing an alarming spike in activity from domestic extremist groups threatening our communities with violence and hate, in person, online, and deep in our communities, we regularly hear the names of domestic terrorist groups like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys because of their involvement in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Not only do they have diversity and equity officers in the cadet chain of command, they wear a special insignia, which is exactly what the political commissars — they would wear an armband in both the Soviet army and now in the Chinese Communist military. I just think there are some really alarming parallels.

Michael Waltz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They're losing employees at an alarming rate because they're not treating them as if they want to keep them, now they're having a hell of time hiring. The word has gotten out these are not attractive jobs.

Dennis Pierce

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know our families are worried. Frankly, we are, too. The court's willingness to overturn almost 50 years of Supreme Court precedent is truly alarming -- and the decision contains language that signals looming threats to other freedoms, like marriage, that are fundamental not only to LGBTQ + people but to everyone.

Shelbi Day

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My expression is one of frustration, watching now for many years, in many ways predating the current climate and the current administration, the success of the right to define the terms of the debate, the success of the right to dominate the narrative... they're winning in ways that are alarming to me.

Gavin Newsom

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The scope of the bank scandals where bank officials embezzle and steal funds from depositors is alarming, and what is exposed could only be the tip of the iceberg, as the Chinese economy slows down further, the fiscal shortage worsens, and the debt repayments become more widespread among Chinese companies, especially in the real estate sector, bank runs could become more often and on a larger scale.

Frank Xie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If the share price of LIC touches Rs.870 level then it is an alarming sign for investor to come out of this share

Lakshheish M Patel

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1 year ago

Climate change is here and it's been here across the American West, climate change is accelerating in alarming ways and faster than scientists predicted even 10 or 20 years ago and that means we have to move very quickly as governments, as water agencies, as communities.

Wade Crowfoot

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Liberal reporters frankly supported the mandate, so they never did much digging. But as of January, there were 31,000 fewer full-time airline workers than before COVID. And while we were told pretty much everyone was complying, it turns out a lot of people were also quitting or retiring early, it's gotten so bad that JetBlue is basically begging flight attendants to take on some open shifts. Alaska Airlines is paying double to take on extra work, but it was the number of retiring pilots that is the most alarming. Obviously, no pilots means no flights.

Oliver Contreras/Pool/Sipa

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I do hope by being here with you, we can reassure you and The Ukrainian people, as well as our allies and partners in the region, that United States stands firm behind its commitments, we come to Taiwan at a very difficult and critical moment in world history. As( United States) President( Joe) Biden has said, democracy is facing sustained and alarming challenges, most recently in Ukraine. Now more than ever, democracy needs champions.

United States

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I know news about what is happening can seem alarming to all Americans. What I want you to know, we're going to be okay. We're going to be OK.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I know news about what’s happening can seem alarming to all Americans, but, I want you to know, we’re going to be OK. We’re going to be OK, when the history of this era is written, Putin’s war in Ukraine will have left Russia weaker and the rest of the world stronger.

Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Anyone I know, within the last semester, has said out loud' I ’m not sure if I'm able to do this,' it's alarming.

Abby Martin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These alarming reports have rightly raised concerns among my constituents in Maryland. They know these illegal immigrants will place strains on their communities, they deserve a full accounting of the numbers of illegal aliens released into their neighborhoods.

Andy Harris

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These many incidents are alarming on their own; together, they depict a complete failure to lead the Department.

The Republican lawmakers

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Roe v. Wade stands as a pillar of health freedom for every person, but today, this historic victory now faces its most alarming threat in decades from right-wing forces, including in state legislatures and on the Supreme Court.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Russia’s continued troop buildup, both on the border of Ukraine and in Belarus,is an act of aggression that is asreckless as it is alarming, while I remain hopeful that diplomacycande-escalate tensions on the Ukranian border, it isnecessarythat the United States, together withourtransatlanticallies,make clear thatany activitiesconstitutingan invasion by the Russian army intosovereignterritorywill be met with significant repercussions.

Gregory Meeks

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's clearly not working, we've told the Senate, we've told the Assembly to fix the laws on numerous occasions, reaching out to the governor to fix the laws because people are dying at an alarming rate. Children are dying at an alarming rate. And this is not fair to the communities in which we serve.

Paul DiGiacomo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As the pandemic and our investigations continue, it is imperative that we understand why the residents of nursing homes in New York unnecessarily suffered at such an alarming rate, while we cannot bring back the individuals we lost to this crisis, this report seeks to offer transparency that the public deserves and to spur increased action to protect our most vulnerable residents.

Letitia James

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Facts can also allow people to know that this is not at the place where we have morgues outside of hospitals, where we're seeing people dying at alarming rates. We are not where we were in the beginning.

Eric Adams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Facts are important because facts can spread fear, facts can also allow people to know that this is not at the place where we have morgues outside of hospitals, where we're seeing people dying at alarming rates. We are not where we were in the beginning.

Eric Adams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We expect those numbers to go even higher before the end of the year. That is staggering and should be alarming to the American people, because we are likely not catching even 10% of what is coming in this country.

Mark Lamb

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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