alarming
adjective
alarm·ing
ə-ˈlär-miŋ 
: causing people to feel danger or alarm or to be worried or frightened
alarming news
The statistics revealed an alarming increase in childhood obesity.
alarmingly
adverb
ə-ˈlär-miŋ-lē
an alarmingly high rate of infection
Examples of alarming in a Sentence
an alarming rise in her fever, causing the doctor to fear the worst
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Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
Longtime Pentagon press corps members and press freedom groups roundly condemned the move, characterizing it as an alarming shift away from decades of precedent set by previous administrations.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 20 Sep. 2025
The growing risks of AI browsers As agentic AI becomes mainstream, scams will scale at an alarming speed.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
While it’s often linked to conditions such as dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, even minor lapses can feel alarming.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for alarming
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“Alarming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alarming. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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