writing on the wall
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“Meta wouldn’t settle unless it sees the writing on the wall and feels really exposed,” Nora Freeman Engstrom, a Stanford University law professor, told the New York Times.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
That opened the path for him to formally challenge Starmer, who read the writing on the wall and quit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The state’s political leaders saw the writing on the wall: With the demographic shift, the ratio of family caregivers to aging parents was set to decline from 7:1 in 2010 to 3:1 in 2050.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
Truist analyst Youssef Squali sees the writing on the wall, from how fast agentic is growing.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
West Virginia’s Governor Homer Holt saw the writing on the wall: the choice was to integrate or, like its neighbor to the east, dig in and contest the ruling.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
