cautionary

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Spliced into these stories, and to some extent giving the novel its structure, is the cautionary tale of Ford’s failed rubber plantation in Brazil.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The period from 2000 to 2010 is the cautionary tale here,” Colas says of the period when the S&P 500’s annualized returns were negative and it ended the decade below where it began.

From Barron's

Abdel-Fattah, a novelist, lawyer and academic, had been invited to the festival to discuss her latest novel Discipline – which she describes as "a cautionary tale about the cost of silence and cowardice".

From BBC

Past pushes into emerging markets that have reopened to foreign investors offer a cautionary tale, some analysts and bondholders say.

From The Wall Street Journal

Newman says it's more than a cautionary tale.

From BBC