clarion call

noun

: a strong request for something to happen
usually singular
He used his speech to sound a clarion call for affordable health care.
the leader's clarion call to action

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The Taylor Swift deepfake incident served as a clarion call, alerting us to the potential for harm. Virginie Berger, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024 For decades, information sharing has been the clarion call, the idea being that the sooner potential victims are tipped off about impending threats and the sooner actual victims reveal how they have been compromised, the better defended the entire system will be. Michèle A. Flournoy, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2018 In other words, if the clarion call of Europa is nothing but a siren song, how could scientists have been led so horribly astray? Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2024 The Path Forward These recent outages are a clarion call for healthcare leaders and technical experts. Chris Bowen, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024 That’s the clarion call of an open letter released Wednesday by California state Senators Nancy Skinner and Steven Bradford, the joint authors of the Fair Pay to Play Act, the nation’s first NIL statute. Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 9 Oct. 2024 This is our clarion call now: There are still 101 hostages in horrific conditions in Gaza, and the time to save them is running out. TIME, 25 Sep. 2024 The Draghi report should serve as a clarion call for investors. Frank Holmes, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024 Declarations are often issued as a clarion call to unlock more money from the international community to prevent further deaths. Christian Edwards, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024

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