Amber Alert

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noun

a public alert system that spreads information about missing persons by using the broadcast media and electronic billboards on highways.

a public message or announcement that uses this system.

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Origin of Amber Alert

Acronym from America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response; named after Amber Hagerman, a girl kidnapped and murdered in Texas in 1996

Words nearby Amber Alert

Ambato, Ambedkar, ambeer, ambenonium chloride, amber, Amber Alert, amberfish, amber fluid, amber gambler, ambergris, amberina

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How to use Amber Alert in a sentence

Minutes before an airplane hit the water, an alert would go out.
Red Tape and Black Boxes: Why We Keep ‘Losing’ Airliners in 2014|Clive Irving|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
France is on high alert this week after a series of attacks by loners.
A Gift to the Jihadis: The Unseen Airport Security Threat|Clive Irving|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I've had him on several of my shows, The Britney Amber Show and even on some shoots.
Porn Stars on the Year in Porn: Drone Erotica, Belle Knox, and Wild Sex|Aurora Snow|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I also want to alert you to the broader circumstances of my incarceration.
An American Marine in Iran’s Prisons Goes on Hunger Strike|IranWire|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST

And a perfectly amber whisky might as well taste like an old shoe.
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It was Carmena, every nerve of her loyal nature on the alert to baffle this pursuer of Alessandro and Ramona.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
Then, his hand resting on the handle of the cab-door, this expression suddenly changed to one of alert suspicion.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
He is small, alert, brimful of jokes and of years; seventy they say, but he neither looks it nor acts it.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
But his eyes and ears were alert, and he was the first to hear the advent of a large body of horses along the main road.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
The Turkish and Persian pipes have often a small wooden tube inside the amber mouth-piece.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.

British Dictionary definitions for Amber Alert

Amber alert

noun

US and Canadian a notification to the general public, such as by commercial radio or electronic traffic-condition signs, regarding an abduction of a child

Word Origin for Amber alert

C20: named after Amber Hagerman, a child who was abducted and murdered in 1996 in Arlington, Texas

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