Example Sentences

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The implications are alarming, since there currently are four industry groupings within the S&P 1,500 index that have trailing two-year alphas of at least 100 percentage points.

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

While the list features a few respectable names, a number are alarming, especially that of Brooklyn College’s Alex Vitale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

"While our results are alarming, they provide a vital glimpse of the future, allowing effective and permanent adaptation measures to be planned and implemented," Professor Perkins-Kirkpatrick said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2025

For the past few years, my research has focused on revealing the hidden relationships between our digital lives and our psychology, and the facts we’re learning about fake news are alarming.

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2025

Amongst other innovations we have to note the spread of "bobbing," the further possibilities of which are alarming to contemplate.

From Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)