telltale

To his eye, the telltale errors of off-the-shelf A.I. translation tools were obvious.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

At the observatory, most neutrinos pass straight through the ice, but occasionally one interacts with it, producing particles that give off a telltale flash of light.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

While this sort of good-enough packaging might have been acceptable in the first years of EV development, it is now clearly a telltale of compromise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

"We were trying to understand one we already knew existed. Then, this telltale signal appeared in the data where we didn't expect it."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

He scanned the slides with his eyes, back and forth, back and forth, moving across the microscopic world, looking for a telltale greenish glow.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

They found that when a phishing pop-up had clear malevolent telltales, like misspellings, the phone and PC users tended to avoid it at similar rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025

“Loss of communication at these screens could interrupt updating of the speedometer, gear selection indicators, telltales and other in-vehicle notifications.”

From The Verge ● May 25, 2022

And because this particular case had so many of those telltales, we went ahead and filed this brief.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2019

Such telltales of a feminist reading are not merely opportune; they are accurate to Shaw’s intent.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2018

Outside, it looks like a portable radio with a few more dials and some telltales and switches and plug-ins for earphones and a lot of other sensory thingumajigs.

From The Big Time by Fritz Leiber