writing on the wall
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“The writing on the wall suggests that, exactly as we feared years ago, this was not the way to go.”
From Los Angeles Times
Truist analyst Youssef Squali sees the writing on the wall, from how fast agentic is growing.
From Barron's
After so many sales calls, Nick Winters says he saw the writing on the wall.
In meetings with Cuban exiles and civic groups in Miami and Washington, they have focused on identifying somebody inside the current government who will see the writing on the wall and want to cut a deal, one U.S. official said.
She never condemns European Jews for not seeing the writing on the wall.
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