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omen

[oh-muhn] / ˈoʊ mən /


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This recent divergence certainly appears to be a very positive omen, as you can see from the accompanying chart.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

It means that vultures are a good omen when a sacrifice has been made because their presence suggests that the deity has accepted the sacrifice and heard the residents' appeal to its power.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Sven Marquardt, a Berlin photographer and Berghain’s most famous bouncer, was sitting in front of me, which I took as an incredibly good omen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

The offering is a good omen for SpaceX’s AI-focused rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, both of which recently filed paperwork that sets them up to stage similarly megasize offerings later this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

A bizarre happening in the United States during the prohibition era about 1930 was an omen of things to come.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

There are bad omens for future tax policy, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

But this was a random thing, right, not, like, the latest in a concentrated sequence of omens that are becoming impossible to ignore?

From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2024

The people of r/Superstonk are dogmatic, unforgiving of alternative views, indulgent of auguries and omens, simultaneously convinced of their righteousness yet constantly fretting about their opponents’ vast and mysterious powers to undermine them.

From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2024

The omens for the coming days are not good.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2024

Then, sometime during the fourth year, the omens will abandon you, because you’ve stopped listening to them.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho


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