Thesaurus results for NOTIFICATIONS

notifications

noun

plural of notification

as in announcements

a published statement informing the public of a matter of general interest a notification posted by the health board that its inspectors had cited the restaurant for several violations

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Recent Examples of notifications In a landmark decision, a jury found Meta and YouTube liable for intentionally designing their systems to be addictive by using features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, and push notifications. — Schuyler Moore, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026 Meta agreed to impose changes including a default two-hour daily time limit for teens across Facebook and Instagram, muted notifications during school hours, and enhanced parental controls, with more updates potentially on the horizon. — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026 The deal, announced Wednesday morning, includes daily time limits for users under 18 years old, blocks on notifications in the middle of the night and the option for teens to have a feed that is not driven by an algorithm. — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026 Prinstein, who was set to testify at the trial on Monday, says that constant notifications about likes and dislikes don't suit the developing pre-teen and teen brain. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026 Those reforms from Meta, which runs Facebook and Instagram, include two-hour daily time limits for children, elimination of push notifications during school hours and other content controls. — Lucas Aulbach, Louisville Courier Journal, 27 Aug. 2026 Remember, Apple says its threat notifications will never ask for your password or verification code. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2026 The states claim that Meta’s infinite scroll, autoplay, notifications, likes and recommendation systems are designed to keep young people engaged, similar to the way ingredients in tobacco can hook smokers. — Larry Magid, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026 The City Council is now considering a bill that would require City Hall to issue emergency notifications any time FDNY EMS has more than 25 pending ambulance dispatches. — Ali Bauman, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

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For years, America's been in the chokehold of unnecessarily oversized pickup trucks, but recent announcements of new vehicles show that common sense – and more reasonably proportioned utes – may soon prevail.

— Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2026
The Federal Reserve’s new chairman, Kevin Warsh, is set to deliver a speech Friday at an annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the backdrop for past policy announcements.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026

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California Senate Bill 646 mandates that specific levels of arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury must be published openly on each brand’s website while packages and advertisements must clearly state how heavy metal testing is done.

— Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026
There have been many advertisements over the years with men tackling or shoving women.

— Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2026

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An executive order followed in August 2025, then OCC bulletins in September telling banks to base service decisions on objective risk.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Sky will also have to commission a proportion of programmes made outside London, and honour the contract for ITN’s news bulletins for ITV until 2031.

— Will Barker, TheWeek, 6 July 2026

Definition of bulletins

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These kinds of postings tend to reflect more about the person posting than the people the post is about.

— Abigail Van Buren, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026
The San Francisco Bay Area still leads in raw AI-specialist numbers and has a higher concentration of AI job postings overall (26%, versus 17% in New York).

— Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026

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