WAKE-UP CALL Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

wake-up call

noun

as in warning

something that tells of approaching danger or risk his high blood pressure was a wake-up call that he needed to do something about his health

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

all clear

Examples of wake-up call in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The persistence of that finding should be a wake-up call for employers already battling high turnover and labor shortages. —

Wire Services, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023 Those efforts show the pandemic has been a wake-up call, Horowitz said. —

Rachel Scott, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2023 Texas is on an entirely different level than those teams and had a bit of a wake-up call against Penn State. —

Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2023 Most important, the Fed and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) got a wake-up call that their oversight of middle-size banks has been dangerously lax. —

Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2023 See all Example Sentences for wake-up call

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