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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

This is just the opposite of what Wall Street’s bulls are contending in claiming that the transports’ relative strength is a bullish omen.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026

Those looking for a good omen will note, however, that the famous result helped Northern Ireland qualify for that summer's World Cup in Sweden.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025

That Guadalajara’s team, the Charros de Jalisco, wore Dodger blue felt like a good omen.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

In a city that was fast falling apart, it was seen as an omen that even worse things were yet to come.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy