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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

The omen was created by an analyst named Jim Miekka back in the 1990s.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 6, 2026

Indeed, the U.S. dollar index was up 0.5% Monday to 97.48, a bad omen for risk assets such as Bitcoin.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 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

Harry glanced at the ceiling and saw a clear, pale blue sky: a good omen.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling