writing on the wall
Example Sentences
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The state’s political leaders saw the writing on the wall: With the demographic shift, the ratio of family caregivers to aging parents was set to decline from 7:1 in 2010 to 3:1 in 2050.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
Truist analyst Youssef Squali sees the writing on the wall, from how fast agentic is growing.
From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026
Amanda Schmidt saw the writing on the wall a few months before her early-December layoff from a marketing job at a tech company.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
"I know the pain that I'm going through," she says, "and I could just see the writing on the wall that this was going to be a disaster for a lot of families and teenagers."
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025
After that, the EPA probably saw the writing on the wall; in any case, it quit bugging Milagro’s dump.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
