omen

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Unlike some anonymous Polymarket traders, though, the omen named for the doomed German airship couldn’t have known bombs were about to fall on Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Keys also won in 2022 on her only other appearance in the South Australia city, and thinks that is a good omen for her Australian Open preparation.

From Barron's • Jan. 11, 2026

Would it be an affirmation of nature’s power of renewal or an omen of irreversible decline?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025

The recent strength exhibited by the Dow Jones Transportation Average is not the bullish omen that many analysts believe.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 16, 2025

They were glue-covered, sticky and thin, and as he inched them on, one tore—not a dangerous tear, just a split between the fingers, but it seemed to him an omen.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote