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early warning

British  

noun

  1. advance notice of some impending event or development

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Now retired, Paulsen publishes a Substack newsletter in which he revived an early warning indicator he’s used successfully as an economic signal in the past: the Walmart Recession Signal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Darnytska CHP-4, or CHPP-4, and a residential building were hit in a strike the president said came with "no early warning from our partners".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Work is similarly under way to improve Europe's early warning system with plans under discussion including reinforcing the mandate of the bloc's border agency Frontex to conduct social media monitoring.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Perimeter builds infrastructure to monitor biological signals for early warning of threats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The early warning system worked perfectly in Fukushima prefecture.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

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