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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Carreira’s is the kind of small, still-waters debut that nonetheless confidently sets out its maker’s store for future work — a clarion call for a new generation of social-realist cinema, sadly not as far removed from the previous one as their forebears might have hoped.
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
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
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
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
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