Amber alert

Amber alert (plural Amber alerts)

1. Alternative letter-case form of amber alert.
   • 2003 March 14, Carl Hulse, “End of an Abduction: Alert Network; Lawmakers Rush to Back a National Alert System”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:

     Amber alerts, in which bulletins about abductions are quickly distributed through the news and posted on highway signs, were named in recognition of Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old Texas girl who was kidnapped and killed in 1996. “Just pass this, just pass this,” Senator Patrick J[oseph] Leahy of Vermont, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, urged House members. The Senate passed a bill on the Amber alerts in January.

   • 2010 February 20, “How to improve Amber alerts”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 July 2025:

     It is fabulous that the Seat Pleasant girl who was the subject of an Amber alert was recovered safely […]

   • 2021 October 3, Karen Valby, “SNL Got the Gang Back Together, But Still Can‘t Figure Out Joe Biden”, in Radhika Jones, editor, Vanity Fair‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 October 2021:

     Ego Nwodim, who came into her own last season, was the first special guest. “Black Woman Who’s Been Missing for 10 Years” had some thoughts on America’s sick fascination with missing white girls. [“]If the tragically missing has a straight blonde ponytail, she’s going to get an Amber alert, the promise of a hefty reward, portraits of her grieving parents, and around-the-clock news coverage.”