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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
Jennifer NagorkaExamples of alarmed in a Sentence
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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The Trump administration’s unprecedented action against Harvard is not the only reason why international college students have become alarmed about their future in the United States.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
But even legal scholars with an expansive view of executive authority have grown alarmed.
—Eric Cortellessa, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
Garcia, like many of us, is alarmed that these deportations aren’t just to a foreign country, but into a prison where a government official once said the only way out was in a coffin.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
The rollout of Trump’s tariffs has rattled financial markets and alarmed allies, some of whom have reached out to the U.S. about working out trade deals.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 17 Apr. 2025
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Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
But even legal scholars with an expansive view of executive authority have grown alarmed.
—Eric Cortellessa, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
Garcia, like many of us, is alarmed that these deportations aren’t just to a foreign country, but into a prison where a government official once said the only way out was in a coffin.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
The rollout of Trump’s tariffs has rattled financial markets and alarmed allies, some of whom have reached out to the U.S. about working out trade deals.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 17 Apr. 2025
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“Alarmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alarmed. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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