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signposting

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Like Guedez, many residents pushed on with their desperate search despite the signposting.

From Barron's • Jul. 1, 2026

But the review said that access to mental health support "could be improved" across the sector in terms of "awareness, signposting, and reviewing the needs of specific groups" like international students.

From BBC • May 20, 2025

BMI Research analysts said "given that the global economy is slowing, the group will likely want to maintain their current cuts, while signposting the scope for further reductions, if market conditions demand it."

From Reuters • Oct. 3, 2023

The plaintiff is a TV writer who says Delta’s “carbon-neutral” signposting misled her and that “she would not have purchased said flights on the same terms had they known those representations were not true.”

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2023

Like all writing decisions, the amount of signposting requires judgment and compromise: too much, and the reader bogs down in reading the signposts; too little, and she has no idea where she is being led.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker