omens
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Successive dynasties employed specialists to monitor celestial events because unusual phenomena in the sky were often interpreted as omens.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
There are bad omens for future tax policy, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Even City manager Pep Guardiola sensed the bad omens, saying: "When I saw the fire before the game I thought 'the journalists have their headlines already'."
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2025
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
Then, sometime during the fourth year, the omens will abandon you, because you’ve stopped listening to them.
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
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