Antonyms for wake-up callwake-up call

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Princeton's WordNet

1. wake-up callnoun

   a warning to take action concerning something that was overlooked or neglected

   "the bombing was a wake-up call to strengthen domestic security"

2. wake-up callnoun

   a telephone call that you request be made a specific time in order to wake you up at that time (especially in hotels)

   "she left a wake-up call for 7 a.m."

How to use wake-up call in a sentence?

1. Sean Esteban McCabe:

   In some schools there was little to no misuse of stimulants, while in other schools more than 25% of students had used stimulants in nonmedical ways, this study is a major wake-up call.

2. Peter Piot:

   I hope that today's decision serves as a wake-up call to drive high-level political action, improved coordination, and greater funding to support DRC in their efforts to stop this devastating epidemic.

3. Lon Kightlinger:

   It should be a wake-up call for not only for every person, for every health center in Madagascar, but for the whole world. These diseases come back and they clobber us if we are not protected, these are living viruses who are very clever, and they will find us.

4. Christina Reynolds:

   This is a deliberate Republican effort to end abortion altogether and to take away this right, i think a number of us thought this was coming. For those of us who didn't, this has been a massive wake-up call.

5. Van Aalst:

   I hope it's a wake-up call also to people that have not just been affected by this one, but also people elsewhere -- because it's been heatwaves elsewhere, where I could tell a similar story, we are just facing more extreme events of many kinds, and the only thing we can do is, on the one hand, closing the tap off the increase in greenhouse gases to avoid the risk of getting further out of hand, and on the other hand, preparing for that more extreme climate.

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