signpost
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It all amounted to a brutal critique of Liverpool's strategy under Slot this season, as well a offering up a signpost as to the style he feels they must approach after this disappointing season.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
What I was thinking, in fact, was that I was quite underwhelmed by the faded red curbs as a signpost for progress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
A sector rotation can be a good way for investors to find clues to where the market is headed—but it’s a signpost that often goes unnoticed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026
Regardless of the sticker we slap on this signpost, it refers to the late-20s urge to commit to your path or trash it and start fresh.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025
A signpost that I was on the right road.
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
As the Spurs dethroned the defending champions on their home floor, the 22-year-old Wembanyama didn’t just match the early-career signposts of the greatest players in NBA history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
“There’ll be a number of signposts that we’ll be watching,” Wirth said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
For now, it’s difficult to say where prices for gold and silver may go from here, Marex’s Meir said, given that there are “no resistance signposts on the charts.”
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026
Given all the signposts the story’s obligated to hit, the plot’s cohesiveness is a minor miracle.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2025
We pass a busy ticket hall full of vendors and rows of glass hatches, lines of seats and signposts.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
“All In the Family” signposted its main character’s irascible bigotry and generation-gap grievances in the first minute by having its main character sing wistfully of a time when “Guys like me we had it made.”
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026
The words "better together" may have been signposted inside the canteen, but there was a notable absentee.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
They are also signposted to additional NHS services, if needed, it added.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025
It signposted its recent five-year plan, which has been approved by the government.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2025
What I haven’t recognized till now is that the answers are signposted.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
Like Guedez, many residents pushed on with their desperate search despite the signposting.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Wiltshire Police is urging residents to only call 999 in an emergency, and is signposting those who wish to report obstructions and debris on roads to local authorities or National Highways.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2024
BMI Research analysts said "given that the global economy is slowing, the group will likely want to maintain their current cuts, while signposting the scope for further reductions, if market conditions demand it."
From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2023
The plaintiff is a TV writer who says Delta’s “carbon-neutral” signposting misled her and that “she would not have purchased said flights on the same terms had they known those representations were not true.”
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2023
The first subsection introduces the concept of “metadiscourse,” followed by one of its principal manifestations, the use of signposting.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
