signpost
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What I was thinking, in fact, was that I was quite underwhelmed by the faded red curbs as a signpost for progress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
Regardless of the sticker we slap on this signpost, it refers to the late-20s urge to commit to your path or trash it and start fresh.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025
Spurs celebrated entry into the Champions League as a signpost to serious progress but they are still acclimatising to the demands of Europe's elite tournament.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025
For investors, the key signpost is whether Trump and Xi meet later this month at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Seoul.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2025
The art of classic prose is to signpost sparingly, as we do in conversation, and with a minimum of metadiscourse.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
As we string groups of words together in our heads, resting and resuming, we take in almost unconsciously the little signposts of punctuation that give shape and rhythm to what we’re reading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“There’ll be a number of signposts that we’ll be watching,” Wirth said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
You’ve written about how the media often signposts police as heroes — has this always been the case or was it a gradual process of building a public relations institution?
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2026
The BofA team tracks 10 bear-market signposts — signals that, according to Subramanian, have reliably anticipated past stock-market peaks.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025
‘It looks funny, people walking around like signposts, or billboard adverts.’
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
After the tourists put up 416, England were going well at 188-1 before, in their determination to attack, falling one after another into Australia's clearly signposted short-ball plan.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
“All In the Family” signposted its main character’s irascible bigotry and generation-gap grievances in the first minute by having its main character sing wistfully of a time when “Guys like me we had it made.”
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026
In areas like Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and North Yorkshire, parents are instead given advice in their child's early development checks, or are signposted towards free NHS tests at their local optician.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
They are also signposted to additional NHS services, if needed, it added.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025
What I haven’t recognized till now is that the answers are signposted.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
Like Guedez, many residents pushed on with their desperate search despite the signposting.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
In its statement on Monday, the IDF said it was reorganising access to the sites and this would include new "fencing" and signposting, including directional and warning signs.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
BMI Research analysts said "given that the global economy is slowing, the group will likely want to maintain their current cuts, while signposting the scope for further reductions, if market conditions demand it."
From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2023
The plaintiff is a TV writer who says Delta’s “carbon-neutral” signposting misled her and that “she would not have purchased said flights on the same terms had they known those representations were not true.”
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2023
It’s not that authors should avoid signposting altogether.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
