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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of alert.

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Examples

  • Sarah Palin alerted people because she saw what they wanted to do to people like her son Trig, who the leftist radicals believe should of never been born (right now in this country close to 90% of Down Syndrome babies are aborted).

    Health Reform | Obama's New Strategy, Democrats, Republicans 2009

  • Dorothy Martin alerted them first to the space-landers coming to retrieve them from the flood.

    Slacker Spacemen of Christmas Past | Disinformation 2007

  • Our friend and frequent voice here on FlyTalk, Joey Lin alerted us to this video one of his clients shot the other day on the rio Corrientes in northern Argentina.

    A "TYPICAL" Day of Dorado Fishing Tim Romano 2007

  • The informal dog walkers phone chain alerted all to a rabid dog several years ago.

    Are there any herpetologists out there? 2006

  • The informal dog walkers phone chain alerted all to a rabid dog several years ago.

    Are there any herpetologists out there? 2006

  • Well, observant reader Karin alerted me to the fact that Christian displays are hardly politically incorrect in Hamtramck.

    05/06/2004 2004

  • Another call alerted police to a naked woman running down the highway, carrying what also appeared to be a pipe bomb.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • Another call alerted police to a naked woman running down the highway, carrying what also appeared to be a pipe bomb.

    KSL / U.S. / National 2010

  • An anonymous call alerted police to Erica Blasberg's death, which so far remains unexplained.

    Home 2010

  • Another call alerted police to a naked woman running down the highway, carrying what also appeared to be a pipe bomb.

    National Nine News 2010

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