bellwether
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And unlike other primaries that seemed to point toward where the Democratic Party might be heading in 2028, Pappas’ win hardly felt like a bellwether.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026
Given the shortage of memory that many analysts and chief executives have highlighted, semiconductor pricing is a bellwether for the scarcity of supplies.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Los Javis tied for best director honors in Cannes, and the Spanish-language film won the top audience prizes in San Sebastian and at the Toronto International Film Festival, a reliable bellwether for Academy Awards success.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
If that selloff continues and customers pull back, Dell’s just-in-time inventory strategy makes the company something of a bellwether of the health of the rest of the AI-infrastructure boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
They moaned and reverberated and mingled with the distant music of the bellwether, but his mind was made up irrevocably now; he had determined to do the thing he had come to do.
From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
AI bellwethers like Korean and Japanese semiconductor plays recoiled as traders rotated into consumer and internet plays listed in Hong Kong and China.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
South Korea’s Kospi fell 2.7% as semiconductor chip bellwethers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix both closed down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Magnificent Seven members Apple, Microsoft, Meta and Tesla are due this week, with other bellwethers including Texas Instruments, Boeing and Mastercard providing an idea about the state of the economy.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
We’ll concern ourselves now with the nominations on the film side, as the guild’s awards are usually one of the most accurate bellwethers for the Oscars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026
The human animal being apt to run after bellwethers, it may be looked upon as natural that this strange conduct of a respectable matron was speedily imitated by the girls.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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