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Amber alert
  1. a notification to the general public, such as by commercial radio or electronic traffic-condition signs, regarding an abduction of a child
Etymology: 20th Century: named after Amber Hagerman, a child who was abducted and murdered in 1996 in Arlington, Texas

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