- plural of omen.
omens
Example Sentences
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There are bad omens for future tax policy, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
An omen among omens: Mid-dog-walk that day, I spot a onesie that reads “Milk Drunk” and shudder at the impulse to recruit our newborns into low-key bacchanalia.
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
And with the way in which the balls ran during the closing stages he may feel that the omens are in his favour this time around.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2025
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
There was a sinister and unlikely coincidence exposed that was too diabolical in implication to be anything less than the most hideous of omens.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
