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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alerting someone" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to inform or notify someone about something important or urgent.
Example: "I will be alerting someone in the team about the issue we encountered during the project."
Alternatives: "notifying someone" or "informing someone".
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Would you be sabotaging your idea by alerting someone to it who is well placed to copy it?
His yelling occupies a specific register: to my ear, it's not quite the shriek reserved for alerting someone to an oncoming truck, but it's more urgent than a summons to the dinner table.
Instead of simply alerting someone of something they wanted to remember, however, the system described can essentially turn an entire household or office off and on, and prepare it for comfortable human occupancy.
Mann comes out of the gate strong, telling Van Vliet, "You're handsome," before alerting someone off camera to his presence by yelling, "Look!
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Should they have alerted someone?
Should she have alerted someone?
That should have alerted someone, but who paid attention to camp kids?
People would fight, kill for such a catch, and the screeching might've alerted someone.
I called them every name I could think of, hoping to alert someone who might overhear me.
Like a door knock, an acknowledgement of country is a simple and courteous way to alert someone of your presence.
Ultimately, it seemed that the only way not to go down alone was to alert someone with power and influence.
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