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Recent Examples of beep
Some of the systems even beep the horn and roll down windows if the driver ignores the alert.
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Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 30 Nov. 2024
Forty-five minutes later, at 6:15 a.m., Buncombe County issued its own emergency warning: a mandatory evacuation order that beeped into phones via the Integrated Public Alert & Warning System, or IPAWS, FEMA’s system for local emergencies.
—Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
Trying to eliminate all the electronic dings, blurbs, and beeps from your sound world, or go more than a few hours without hearing an engine, could become an all-consuming quest.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
On the morning of Friday, Sept. 27, as reports of flooding were becoming widespread, Buncombe County issued a mandatory evacuation order that beeped into phones via the Integrated Public Alert & Warning System, or IPAWS, FEMA’s system for local emergencies.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2024
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Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 30 Nov. 2024
Forty-five minutes later, at 6:15 a.m., Buncombe County issued its own emergency warning: a mandatory evacuation order that beeped into phones via the Integrated Public Alert & Warning System, or IPAWS, FEMA’s system for local emergencies.
—Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
Trying to eliminate all the electronic dings, blurbs, and beeps from your sound world, or go more than a few hours without hearing an engine, could become an all-consuming quest.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
On the morning of Friday, Sept. 27, as reports of flooding were becoming widespread, Buncombe County issued a mandatory evacuation order that beeped into phones via the Integrated Public Alert & Warning System, or IPAWS, FEMA’s system for local emergencies.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2024
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While Altadena, which has a large Latino population, was burning, social media started buzzing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was nearby conducting a raid, Salas said.—
Anita Chabria,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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Only male cicadas sing or make that buzzing noise they’re known for.—
Saleen Martin,
USA TODAY,
14 Jan. 2025
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Thirty-three minutes later — and less than 2½ miles away — Anthony and Paula Gribble’s son dialed authorities and reported that his parents had been fatally shot, Dance said.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC News,
14 Jan. 2025
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Inflation-weary drinkers have simultaneously dialed back their spending on pricey liquors, putting premium spirits makers like Brown-Forman in financial peril.—
Jordan Valinsky,
CNN,
14 Jan. 2025
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There was a tinge of bitterness in his overnight delay in wiring or phoning his concession to the winning candidate.—
Peter Goldman,
Newsweek,
29 Dec. 2024
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Two days after an historic Christmas Eve sun flyby that flew closer to the star than any spacecraft in history — taking the car-sized spacecraft nearly 10 times closer to the sun than Mercury — the Parker Solar Probe phoned home for the first time since its solar encounter.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
27 Dec. 2024
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Not long after Ryan Holdren returned home one evening in March 2021 from his job at Cincinnati College Preparatory Academy, the school’s secretary telephoned to tell him that one of their students was on TV.—
Johnny Dodd,
People.com,
21 Dec. 2024
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Visitors can play with a tin can telephone or connect to the museum’s general store on a working candlestick phone.—
Anne Gelhaus,
The Mercury News,
24 Nov. 2024
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“Beep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beep. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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