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signpost

[sahyn-pohst] / ˈsaɪnˌpoʊst /




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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

The council's strategic and resources committee on Friday decided it should "suspend posting on its account and signpost followers towards the council's other social media channels".

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 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

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

Right under the signpost was a tinker with a pair of donkeys, one of them loaded so high with bags and bundles that it looked ready to tip over, the other conspicuously unburdened.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

“The Madman’s Guide” has no chapter headings but many signposts such as “to digress further” and “at last to return to.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

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

Absent the usual signposts, Wall Street has had to turn to other indicators such as credit-card spending, corporate earning results and state jobless claims to try to piece together what is going on.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2025

There were no roads I could see, or signposts, or even footpaths.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

“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

"We will, of course, consider the feedback raised and explore how the route can be more clearly advertised and signposted to further increase awareness and confidence. "

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 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

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

Like Guedez, many residents pushed on with their desperate search despite the signposting.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

"There are resources for signposting and referrals, it's such a community... for some of the service users, this might be the only time they communicate with people, or have a conversation."

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

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

Like all writing decisions, the amount of signposting requires judgment and compromise: too much, and the reader bogs down in reading the signposts; too little, and she has no idea where she is being led.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker


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