omen

It means that vultures are a good omen when a sacrifice has been made because their presence suggests that the deity has accepted the sacrifice and heard the residents' appeal to its power.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Sven Marquardt, a Berlin photographer and Berghain’s most famous bouncer, was sitting in front of me, which I took as an incredibly good omen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

That is a bad omen, though it’s encouraging that Kavanaugh and Barrett didn’t sign onto it.

From Slate ● May 23, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

The third omen that this was going to be a bad day was when we went into the nocturnal room of the Mammal Building.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

There are bad omens for future tax policy, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The omens are good for the British pair – last year, they won GB's first figure skating World Championship medal in more than 40 years with bronze in Boston.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

But this was a random thing, right, not, like, the latest in a concentrated sequence of omens that are becoming impossible to ignore?

From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2024

The people of r/Superstonk are dogmatic, unforgiving of alternative views, indulgent of auguries and omens, simultaneously convinced of their righteousness yet constantly fretting about their opponents’ vast and mysterious powers to undermine them.

From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2024

He had worked hard for a year, and the omens were that it was time to go.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho