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

Matched Categories

1. • Leader
   • Wether

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1. List of paraphrases for "bellwether":

   giant

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How to use bellwether in a sentence?

1. Kevin McCarthy:

   When you sit back and you look and you want to pinpoint when was the bellwether, when was the moment in time that you truly felt that you knew that the majority was in play and you had the capability of winning – when Ron Kind said that he was retiring.

2. Rick Hasen:

   These are kind of bellwether cases that people are watching, if Texas and North Carolina are successful here, then I suspect other states will follow suit.

3. Robert Scheuer:

   I, quite frankly, don't know enough about the cases that were in the pool of candidates, it may very well be that given the many variables involved, this case was a perfectly rational choice to be the first bellwether selection.

4. Trip Miller:

   Due to the diversity of its businesses, Berkshire is a wonderful bellwether for what is going on in the economy, hopefully, cash will serve him and his partners well when the market suffers a pullback.

5. Benjamin Abbott:

   This is a bellwether for what’s going on in the larger river basins, we need to lay out some very clear language about where we’re headed.