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: feeling a sense of danger : urgently worried, concerned, or frightened
I was alarmed to see how sick she looked.
And what followed was not a miracle but a … model of how tough government, cooperative businessmen and a very alarmed public can make a dirty world clean again.—
William Oscar Johnson
William Oscar Johnson2
: equipped with an alarm
an alarmed door
Most exits were locked and alarmed, and employees had to show ID badges when they entered lab buildings.—Jennifer Nagorka
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the Mohawks were the trapper's friends, so he was not the least bit alarmed at the sight of the band of Mohawk hunters
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Confused and more alarmed, Rippy walked toward Mack’s bedroom, reached in and found a light switch.
—Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
Felecia, having once listened to a podcast that characterized the diagnosis as controversial, grew alarmed.
—Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 29 Dec. 2024
Lydia becomes more alarmed and suspicious when nosy neighbor Phyllis sends her security-camera footage from the night before that clearly shows Leslie trespassing on the Morgans’ property.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
From his second-floor office in the Scurry County Courthouse, Hicks told the Abilene Reporter-News, part of the USA TODAY Network, workers in the building became alarmed during a5.0 quake Friday, which hit at 9:28 a.m. local time.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 31 July 2024
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Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
Felecia, having once listened to a podcast that characterized the diagnosis as controversial, grew alarmed.
—Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 29 Dec. 2024
Lydia becomes more alarmed and suspicious when nosy neighbor Phyllis sends her security-camera footage from the night before that clearly shows Leslie trespassing on the Morgans’ property.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
From his second-floor office in the Scurry County Courthouse, Hicks told the Abilene Reporter-News, part of the USA TODAY Network, workers in the building became alarmed during a5.0 quake Friday, which hit at 9:28 a.m. local time.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 31 July 2024
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“Alarmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alarmed. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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