omen

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Unlike some anonymous Polymarket traders, though, the omen named for the doomed German airship couldn’t have known bombs were about to fall on Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Nvidia’s expanded partnership with Meta Platforms could be a bad omen for Intel.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 18, 2026

Keys also won in 2022 on her only other appearance in the South Australia city, and thinks that is a good omen for her Australian Open preparation.

From Barron's • Jan. 11, 2026

Would it be an affirmation of nature’s power of renewal or an omen of irreversible decline?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025

“He won’t leave the circle. You found life in the desert, the omen that 1 needed.”

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho