ominous
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The parallels with the 1970s are ominous: Inflation surges and then retreats but gets stuck a bit too high.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
But if you thirst for a sober-minded investigation into this ominous tool — one with an approach that treats you like the intelligent being you are — you’ll have to wait for AI doc 2.0.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Would he even want to walk into such an ominous situation?
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
More ominous is the movement in the bond market’s expectations of where inflation is headed.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026
Hamilton shared his ominous sense of the situation with John Jay, his part-time collaborator as “Publius” in The Federalist Papers.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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