warning sign

noun

: something which shows that something else will happen

Falling prices may be a warning sign of a recession.

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His narrow victory over O'Rourke in 2018 was a warning sign to Republicans that Texas, long considered a reliable red state, was increasingly competitive. —

Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024 One of the nation’s best pollsters just flashed a major warning sign at the Trump campaign. —

Paolo Confino, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2024 The big picture: The expansiveness and intensity of the ongoing blazes are another warning sign among a series of recent discoveries showing that the Amazon rainforest and Pantanal wetlands are under increasing pressure from a combination of human activities and extreme climate events. —

Andrew Freedman, Axios, 23 Sep. 2024 Is this a climatological warning sign, or something even more ominous? —

Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for warning sign