signpost
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On the side of a dirt road near Felix's farm, a large signpost warned ominously: "Foot-and-mouth disease control area".
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
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
A sector rotation can be a good way for investors to find clues to where the market is headed—but it’s a signpost that often goes unnoticed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026
There is currently no legal obligation for streaming platforms to label AI-generated songs, despite increasing calls for them to signpost such tracks.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
Another cross to the memory of Queen Eleanor stood at the dividing point, but no signpost.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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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
For now, it’s difficult to say where prices for gold and silver may go from here, Marex’s Meir said, given that there are “no resistance signposts on the charts.”
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026
With the corporate earnings season drawing to a close and no major economic data releases currently expected in the run-up to the Fed’s meeting, the next market signposts remain unclear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
At least three signposts matter in determining what happens next.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2025
We pass a busy ticket hall full of vendors and rows of glass hatches, lines of seats and signposts.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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“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
My family were signposted to a charity called the Jennifer Trust, now known as Spinal Muscular Atrophy UK, which helped support me.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
She went off work with stress in December 2021 and had regular contact with Dr Swinghurst, who prescribed anti-depressants, signposted her to mental health support and provided a sick note until April 2022.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025
The words "better together" may have been signposted inside the canteen, but there was a notable absentee.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
What I haven’t recognized till now is that the answers are signposted.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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Like Guedez, many residents pushed on with their desperate search despite the signposting.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
"This can start with the basics of better communication and signposting to support services that charities like Versus Arthritis can offer."
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2023
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
This paragraph introduces one of its primary manifestations, the phenomenon of signposting.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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