cautionary

• On the flip side, the ratings and revenue collapse of San Francisco's once-mighty KRON would serve as a cautionary tale to WHDH. —  Variety.com
• Monkman suggests the career of celebrated painter Norval Morrisseau as a cautionary tale: —  Thestar.com - Home Page
• Dyson should serve as a cautionary tale to any scientist commenting well outside the area of his expertise. —  RealClimate
• GARY Winick's exceedingly lame "Bride Wars," a truly inauspicious start to 2009 at the movies, is interesting only - and very slightly, at that - as a cautionary tale about Hollywood stardom. —  Bricks and Stones Gossip
• However, next week as a special bonus, I will run a story on the C64 laptop that WASN'T - a kind of cautionary tale of modding gone wrong. —  Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog

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