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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

Through years of extraordinary political upheaval, the sound engineer at No. 10 Downing Street has served as a chiseled omen of great change.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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

She smiled, and that was certainly an omen—the omen he had been awaiting, without even knowing he was, for all his life.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

There are bad omens for future tax policy, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

An omen among omens: Mid-dog-walk that day, I spot a onesie that reads “Milk Drunk” and shudder at the impulse to recruit our newborns into low-key bacchanalia.

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

The omens are good for the British pair – last year, they won GB's first figure skating World Championship medal in more than 40 years with bronze in Boston.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

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

She knew about the weather, omens, the living, the dead, dreams and all illnesses and made a modest living with her skills.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison