bellwethernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbelˌwe.ðər/us/ˈbelˌwe.ðɚ/someone or something that shows how a situation will develop or change:
The report is viewed as a bellwether for economic trends.
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Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- betcha
- bode
- clairvoyant
- far-sighted
- intuition
- intuitive
- nasty
- omen
- ominous
- projection
- prophetic
- psychic
- read sb's mind idiom
- read sb's palm idiom
- read the runes idiom
- scenario
- scent
- visionary
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