The phrase "alert interest" is not commonly used in written English and may be unclear in meaning.
It could be used in contexts where you want to describe a heightened or attentive level of interest in a particular subject or situation.
Example: "The recent developments in technology have sparked an alert interest among researchers in the field."
Alternatives: "keen interest" or "heightened interest".
He's an alert writer with an alert interest in tolerance: he has done work for the American Civil Liberties Union.
He is a genuine hero then, one who is watched with alert interest and suspense and far-reaching imagination.
Like that other largehearted, blasphemous comedian, Mark Twain, Saramago takes an alert interest in actual villages, and in the various villages of the mind.
Repelled by prescriptions – formal, political, religious – he maintained an alert interest in other poetries and other arts: music, architecture, sculpture, painting.
They later discovered police had placed a marker against their car registration on the database, triggering an alert – "of interest to public order unit, Sussex police" – each time they drove beneath an automatic number plate reading camera.
But at 7.23am on 31 July 2005, the van had passed beneath an automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) camera in east London, triggering an alert: "Of interest to Public Order Unit, Sussex police".
(Conflict of interest alert; Mr Harford is an old colleague and endorsed my last tome.
(Conflict of interest alert: As the names imply, CrunchBase and TechCrunch have always had close ties, and we're part of the same team at AOL).
That's kitty watching you furtively… Be alert to her interest in the keyboard so that you can spot any readiness to spring and pounce.
The hours of afternoon tea are conducive to good afternoon discussions while people are still alert; plus, the interest factor of the tea lounge outweighs a boring office or meeting room and will add to alertness.
The financial markets were on alert for aggressive interest-rate hikes by the Bank of England.But over the summer, the recovery has stumbled.
