How to Use warning sign in a Sentence
warning sign
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Time is on your side, and doubt is your warning sign to sit tight.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
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The highway warning sign says our tires must have chains on them.
—David Schechter, Haley Rush, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2023
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No matter who runs, some Republicans see the state Supreme Court race as a warning sign ahead of 2024.
—Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2023
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The trend is a warning sign for the rest of Europe, and an immediate concern for Germans.
—Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
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Comparatively, the lack of turnovers was an early warning sign for the 2022 unit.
—Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 25 July 2023
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This discomfort is a warning sign to hydrate and seek shelter.
—Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
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Patrick Bolger—Getty Images The new drug looked so promising—except for that one warning sign.
—Arthur Allen, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
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Youngblood pushed back: How would the school react if her daughter overheard a warning sign that traced back to an actual threat?
—Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2023
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But an uninspired name can feel, in retrospect, like an early warning sign.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2024
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The widening fundraising gap is a warning sign for Trump, who has been saddled with paying off legal bills in his multiple court cases.
—Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
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Today, this indicator is flashing a warning sign for the United States.
—Heather Long, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
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This is not the only warning sign for the spirits industry, as some of the biggest drinks corporations have issued reports that show their own declines.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 10 May 2024
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That’s a major warning sign in one of the most competitive battleground states, which Biden narrowly carried in 2020.
—Audrey Fahlberg, National Review, 31 Jan. 2024
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That’s usually a warning sign that a game is coming in hot, and after the delay to launch it certainly feels like the developers should have been given even more time to polish this PC port.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 29 Mar. 2023
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Another warning sign is if the elephants perform in shows or demonstrations, like painting, Higgins said.
—Mary Jo Dilonardo, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2024
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Exercising in a way that worsens a person’s quality of life may also be a warning sign, Nagata said via email.
—Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
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His comments came as officials discussed whether the shooter’s truancy issues could have been a warning sign of other concerns.
—Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2023
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Although the results are a warning sign for Democrats, the survey does not necessarily point to a Republican victory in 2024.
—Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 13 July 2023
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And 30-day delinquencies have been creeping higher — an early warning sign of potential trouble ahead.
—Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
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Kasirye said another warning sign is when your body stops sweating altogether.
—Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 27 June 2024
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The recent jump in mortality is the latest warning sign that years of natural disasters and financial crises have taken a deadly toll.
—Zoeann Murphy, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
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The study authors predicted the migrant birds listened to infrasound — sound at frequencies too low for humans to hear — associated with the storms and heeded it as a warning sign.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
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Instead, ahead of Wednesday’s all-important consumer price index reading, markets got a warning sign.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 14 May 2024
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Nation/World Businesses are starting to cut workers’ hours, forcing hundreds of thousands of people into part-time roles, in what could be an early warning sign for the economy.
—Abha Bhattarai, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2023
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That's another warning sign that a recession may be imminent.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
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Perhaps the fact that these rollbacks functionally accomplished little off the bat should have been an early warning sign that the new administration wouldn’t be the clean break for which many advocates had hoped.
—Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
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If any of the symptoms appear and do not get better — especially if someone experiences more than one symptom — it should be considered a warning sign.
—Reynolds Lewis, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2023
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Still, Keuschnigg sees the lack of a correlation between intelligence and salary at high levels as a warning sign about growing income inequality between the most wealthy and the rest of society.
—Low De Wei, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2023
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And Gogarty worries this may be an early warning sign that Meta has begun to take its enforcement of its own policies less seriously.
—WIRED, 1 Sep. 2023
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Now, doctors can detect one cancer cell out of a million healthy ones, identifying the depth of a patient's remission ‒ offering true peace of mind for some and getting an early warning sign at the first sign of recurrence.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
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