runic
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Investors and commentators scrutinize the tables and graphs—especially a runic “dot plot” of individual committee members’ guesses about future interest rates—for clues about the Fed’s thinking.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
This runic version in modern Swedish read: “Leif Eriksson was here.”
From Slate • Nov. 11, 2023
He remembers one arrangement, a soiled onesie on a chessboard mat splashed with runic handwriting.
From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2023
The logo for the technology is designed from the Scandinavian runic letters for the king’s initials, HB.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2022
The stone Pensieve lay in the cabinet where it had always been: Harry heaved it onto the desk and poured Snape’s memories into the wide basin with its runic markings around the edge.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing runic
"The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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