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The more Sony Pictures data keeps leaking, the more my moral compass spins like a weather vane in a hurricane.
—Andrew Wallenstein, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
Their opinions shift like a human weather vane depending on what’s in it for them.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 15 Nov. 2024
Lala, like a weather vane with lip implants, always goes whichever way the wind blows.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2024
Sign up The point is not to lionize Haley, whose timidity in the face of Trump has made a weather vane seem like a model of principled constancy.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
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First Known Use
circa 1721, in the meaning defined above
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“Weather vane.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weather%20vane. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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