alarming trend

collocation in English

meaningsofalarmingandtrend

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alarming
adjective
uk
/əˈlɑː.mɪŋ/us
/əˈlɑːr.mɪŋ/
causing worry ...
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trend
noun[C]
uk
/trend/us
/trend/
a general development or change in a situation or in the way that people ...
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(Definition ofalarmingandtrendfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This has given way to continuous cropping, analarmingtrendwith an obvious threat to sustainability2.
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The commission was particularly concerned with thealarmingtrendtowards lower middle-class impoverishment and demands for hospital care and surgical operations.
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All the information suggests that this may be the beginning of analarmingtrend.
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This is becoming a frequent and somewhatalarmingtrendin legislation.
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It is not an easy task to reverse thealarmingtrendof past decades.
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I understand that even now talks are going on about the possible use of suction fishing, an even morealarmingtrend.
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Analarmingtrendis developing.
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That is analarmingtrendbecause, as we have seen, proprietors interfere with editorial freedom from time to time.
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It is analarmingtrend.
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Will he assure us that he will take urgent action to ensure that the present low rate of investment and thealarmingtrenddoes not spiral downward into a recession?
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Does this not show that there is analarmingtrendin lime application, which is one million tons down this year?
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Taking those factors into account, the indication is that the bee population figures, especially when looked at against those of 1925, are really not showing analarmingtrend.
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There is also analarmingtrendfor the citation of review articles over primary literature, driven in part by space limitations that are imposed by some journals.
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Analarmingtrendin these specific house fires is that sixty percent of these houses do not have working smoke detectors.
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It is a veryalarmingtrend.
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It is now turning out that there are some very alarming trends emerging in the country.
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These are, of course, alarming trends and tendencies.
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Underneath those statistics are some alarming trends.
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The awards are intended to draw public attention to privacy issues and related alarming trends in society, especially in data privacy.
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Their awareness of such alarming trends fails to produce unity, and the decision-makers are incapable of finding a global solution.
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