vane
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The remarks by Williams are especially important because he is a top ally of Fed Chair Jerome Powell and is seen as a weather vane for the bank’s future moves.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026
Marialyce Pedersen walked around the parking lot spinning a weather vane on which she’d fashioned a picture of L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026
Election betting is not so much a weather vane as a mechanism for bettors to reflect the world as they see it, and make or lose money doing so.
From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2025
When the tour director “started to explain that the dove of peace on the mansion’s weather vane carried an olive branch, Mrs. Khrushchev muttered, ‘Yes, yes’ and walked away,” the New York Daily News reported.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2022
“It’s the weather vane arm that points north! That’s where the sword must be!”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Turbine blades and vanes are “among the most demanding components modern industry makes,” the SemiAnalysis report said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Those vanes are designed to guide and smooth the air flow to avoid it swirling away from the engine.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
Navy identified as jet vanes for medium-range ballistic missiles.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Hansberry places her specimens under an acute social microscope, not so much for us to identify with, but to be considered timely vanes in the winds of change.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2023
Five minutes later Lyra had forgotten the moral, but she hadn’t forgotten the little whirling vanes in the ray of dusty light.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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