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notification

/ˌnəʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/noun

An alert or message that a device or app shows to tell you about something, such as a new email or update.

Example sentence

  • I turned off notifications on my phone so I could focus on studying.

'Turn off notifications' has become a stock phrase of digital life; the formal sense, an official announcement, survives in legal writing.

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