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You certainly * DO* have the right to remain silent and you * DO* have the right to a warning about your rights by the police, but the Miranda warning is American.

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  1. noun An intimation, threat, or sign of impending danger or evil.
  2. noun Advice to beware.
  3. noun Counsel to desist from a specified undesirable course of action.
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  • You certainly * DO* have the right to remain silent and you * DO* have the right to a warning about your rights by the police, but the Miranda warning is American. —  The Shotgun
  • Richard Hastings, consumer strategist at Global Hunter Securities LLC, said the warning was a little more drastic than he was expecting. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Richard Hastings, Consumer Strategist at Global Hunter Securities LLC, said the warning was a little more drastic than he was expecting. —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
  • Jason dared at last to give him a covert warning, with no hint, however, that the warning was against his own step-father Steve. —  The Heart of the Hills
  • She told the twins the story of Binny's sad end once in the orthodox way, as a warning, but the warning was the only part of it which failed to impress them. —  The Heavenly Twins
 

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  1. from Middle English warninge, a warning, admonition, from Anglo-Saxon wearnung (= Old High German warnunge, German warnung, a warning), verbal noun of wearnian, warnian, warn: see warn, v.
 

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