weather vane
Example Sentences
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The remarks by Williams are especially important because he is a top ally of Fed Chair Jerome Powell and is seen as a weather vane for the bank’s future moves.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026
In doing so, it set up a great weather vane for the state of national politics.
From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2025
A museum should not change directions like a weather vane but give us the reassurance that some things are timeless and provide us with the history and progression of art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
When the tour director “started to explain that the dove of peace on the mansion’s weather vane carried an olive branch, Mrs. Khrushchev muttered, ‘Yes, yes’ and walked away,” the New York Daily News reported.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2022
It rustles the leaves of apple trees and sets a rooster on a weather vane spinning.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
