Meanings
- misspellingMisspelling of bellwether.
They moved in, the rest trailing behind like sheep after a bellweather
1919, Max Brand, Trailin'!4 more examples
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.
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 85Once the joke of the movie industry, the Golden Globes are now a bellweather for the Oscars - and a bit more adventurous too.
2006 December 14, “Hollywood Babel-on: the Golden Globes go leftfield”, in The Guardian, retrieved 07 Dec 2020Natural disturbances to forests around the world are on the rise, constituting a bellweather of global change associated with a warming climate
2015, John A. Stanturf, Restoration of Boreal and Temperate Forests, page 495As the Arctic has been called a bellweather for climate change, where amplitudes are higher and impacts greater […].
2015, Birgitta Evengård, Joan Nymand Larsen, Øyvind Paasche, The New Arctic, page 298
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