bad omen

Example Sentences

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The squeeze on supplies is a bad omen for prices at the pump.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

Nvidia’s expanded partnership with Meta Platforms could be a bad omen for Intel.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 18, 2026

Indeed, the U.S. dollar index was up 0.5% Monday to 97.48, a bad omen for risk assets such as Bitcoin.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

Instead, the justices set it for arguments two months down the road—a bad omen, to put it mildly.

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2024

Both he and Cora decided his skittish personality had not helped them during the close call the previous night, when in another bad omen the regulators knocked on the front door.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead