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Peter Kenyon, NPR, 15 Apr. 2024
But in subsequent weeks, Washington reinforced the warning in multiple conversations with Kyiv, including by national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who traveled to Ukraine’s capital in March, and other senior U.S. defense and intelligence officials.
—John Hudson, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2024
The weather service advises people to have multiple ways of receiving warnings as well as an action plan due to the threat of severe weather.
—Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2024
Might Delete Later was issued on April 5 without warning, and boasts collaborations with Gucci Mane, Cam’ron, Bas, Central Cee, Ari Lennox and Young Dro, among others.
—Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 14 Apr. 2024
After multiple threats by Iran and a warning from U.S. President Joe Biden, Iran on Saturday launched a barrage of weapons into Israel.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024
After a profit warning in November, triggered by slowing sales in Latin America, its latest results revealed that sales of single malts to the United States were down 27% in the second half of 2023.
—Angus MacKinnon, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
But the fresh-faced boss of an upstart French challenger to OpenAI thinks ominous warnings of artificial superintelligence could be the result of a misguided God complex.
—Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 12 Apr. 2024
The committee also said that manufacturers did not need to update their products’ information with any new warnings, however.
—Bruce Gil, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2024
Scott Sonner, Star Tribune, 27 July 2021
In response, statistical authorities around the world could do little but issue warning press releases.
—Andrew Whitby, Time, 17 Apr. 2020
Privacy advocates have sounded warning bells about Big Brother secretly watching us from the sky.
—Katy Moeller, idahostatesman, 22 May 2017
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Word History
Noun
Middle English warnyng, warnynge, going back to Old English warnung, wearning, from wearnian "to warn" + -ung, -ing -ing entry 3
Adjective
from attributive use of warning entry 1
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Adjective
1511, in the meaning defined above
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