Words similar to alarming

Example sentences for: alarming

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The "Rule of Law" piece, by a former Reagan administration deputy attorney general, argues that "it is time for a sober reassessment of the power we have concentrated in the hands of prosecutors and the alarming absence of effective checks and balances to prevent the widespread abuse of that power."
My wife and I were minding our own business in an unregulated apartment in the rapidly gentrifying East Village when we returned from work one day to a letter informing us that our already (to non-New Yorkers) alarming rent of $1,950 was going up $700.
We are losing natural areas and habitats at an alarming rate.
The emerging, alarming trend: Center-right parties are beginning to ally with neofascists such as the National Front.
Meanwhile, a NYT editorial calls the attempt to use executive privilege in the controversy "an alarming attempt to extend presidential power."