Synonyms for on the alert
on the alert

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1. on the alert

   Vigilant implies more sustained activity and more intelligent volition than alert; one may be habitually alert by reason of native quickness of perception and thought, or one may be momentarily alert under some excitement or expectancy; one who is vigilant is so with thoughtful purpose. One is vigilant against danger or harm; he may be alert or watchful for good as well as against evil; he is wary in view of suspected stratagem, trickery, or treachery. A person may be wakeful because of some merely physical excitement or excitability, as through insomnia; yet he may be utterly careless and negligent in his wakefulness, the reverse of watchful; a person who is truly watchful must keep himself wakeful while on watch, in which case wakeful has something of mental quality. Watchful, from the Saxon, and vigilant, from the Latin, are almost exact equivalents; but vigilant has somewhat more of sharp definiteness and somewhat more suggestion of volition; one may be habitually watchful; one is vigilant of set purpose and for direct cause, as in the presence of an enemy. Compare ALERT.

   Synonyms:
   alert, awake, careful, cautious, circumspect, on the lookout, sleepless, vigilant, wakeful, wary, watchful, wide-awake

   Antonyms:
   careless, drowsy, dull, heedless, inattentive, incautious, inconsiderate, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, thoughtless, unwary

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1. on the alert

   Synonyms:
   watching, watchful, attentive, vigilant, on the look out

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1. Alejandro Mayorkas:

   We are doing so by spreading information about what we know, so that the playing field, the landscape of law enforcement and public awareness more generally, is alert to the information that we have in our possession, so that we are all working on the same set of facts and all understand that the of the threat that is before us.

2. Jim Surin:

   The two together are a golden cure for her, she can think better, walk better, talk better. Her brain used to be like in a cloud. Now she can think better and is more alert and she can interact.

3. Iran Dempsey:

   There's every reason to believe that the majority of it will be used to fix their economy that suffered under the sanctions, but I also am alert to the possibility that some if it could be used to support the other malign activities.

4. Independence Police Officer John Syme:

   People take all sorts of things that are odd, but it’s definitely something that would be a ‘ see something, say something ’ - type situation, where you definitely want to be on higher alert. There’s a lot of different things that can be done with propane tanks.

5. The FCC:

   Are you sure that you want to send this Alert ?