bellweather
English
Noun
bellweather
- Misspelling of bellwether.
- 1919, Max Brand, Trailin'!:
- They moved in, the rest trailing behind like sheep after a bellweather
- 1985, Senator Danforth, Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act: hearings before Subcommittee on International Trade, United States. Ninety-ninth Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, page 85:
- There is no doubt that this is a bellweather - what happens in textiles and apparel, as the Senators who testified made very clear, is a bellweather for what is going to happen in other industries.
- 2006 December 14, “Hollywood Babel-on: the Golden Globes go leftfield”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2020-12-07:
- Once the joke of the movie industry, the Golden Globes are now a bellweather for the Oscars - and a bit more adventurous too.
- 2015, John A. Stanturf, Restoration of Boreal and Temperate Forests, page 495:
- Natural disturbances to forests around the world are on the rise, constituting a bellweather of global change associated with a warming climate
- 2015, Birgitta Evengård, Joan Nymand Larsen, Øyvind Paasche, The New Arctic, page 298:
- As the Arctic has been called a bellweather for climate change, where amplitudes are higher and impacts greater […] .
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