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Synonyms for bellwether
ˈbɛlˌwɛð ərbell·wether

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  1. bellwethernoun

    Synonyms:
    sign, indicator, gauge

  2. bellwethernoun

    The leading sheep of a flock, having a bell hung round its neck.

    Synonyms:
    sign, indicator, gauge

  3. bellwethernoun

    Anything that indicates future trends.

    Synonyms:
    sign, gauge, indicator

  4. bellwethernoun

    A stock or bond that is widely believed to be an indicator of the overall market's condition.

    Synonyms:
    gauge, indicator, sign

Princeton's WordNet

  1. bellwethernoun

    someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity

  2. bellwethernoun

    sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell

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  1. List of paraphrases for "bellwether":

    giant

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How to use bellwether in a sentence?

  1. Jonathan Brown:

    Investors' response to Deutsche Telekom, which is somewhat a European bellwether, gives us a good sense of what is to come. There is a lot of pipeline that will now unlock.

  2. Laurie McCann:

    The economy is the bellwether of how much age discrimination we see.

  3. Bill Burton:

    I actually think California is a bellwether for the whole country, you have a mix of suburban, ex-urban, rural areas where you have competitive races. I don't think it's that dissimilar from what you're seeing in place like Pennsylvania, or Minnesota, or Colorado.

  4. Kate Brown:

    This is truly the bellwether for climate change on the West Coast, and this is a wake-up call for all of us that we have got to do everything in our power to tackle climate change.

  5. John Cornyn:

    The story everyone wants to write is that this is all about Donald Trump. But I don't buy that. Obviously, all the Republicans won in Kentucky except for Matt Bevin. He had personal problems. So, I don't agree that this is a bellwether on what's going to happen in( 2020), i mean suburbs, we've got to worry about the suburbs. We got slaughtered in the suburbs in Texas in 2018.


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