harbinger

According to Jason Goepfert, a veteran technical analyst, when 11 or more Omens occur during a three-month period, it has in the past been a reliable harbinger of weakness to come.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

For Bank of America’s chief equity strategist, this may be a harbinger of a “risk-off summer,” especially if it coincides with a yield-curve inversion and a breakdown in tech stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026

"It's potentially significant. We don't know if it was a one-time event or a harbinger of broader things," Sacks said.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

In Alphabet’s telling, its capital expenditures will “significantly increase” in 2027, which may be a harbinger for others in the sector.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

Keep in mind that these results reflect only a child’s early test scores, a useful but fairly narrow measurement; poor testing in early childhood isn’t necessarily a great harbinger of future earnings, creativity, or happiness.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

Startups have long been harbingers of broader workforce and technology trends, such as the rise of the product manager and the shift to “digital-first” business models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Whales, she said, can be harbingers of bigger changes under the surface of the ocean.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

Modern Western culture caricatures vultures as undertakers, grim harbingers of death and hardly ideal images of maternal love.

From Salon ● May 11, 2025

Bulbs are defiant harbingers of spring in colder climes, sometimes pushing up through the snow in their zeal to greet the sun and spread a little color on a bleak landscape of slushy grays.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025

Our present spaceships, with their robot crews, are the harbingers, the vanguards of future human expeditions to the planets.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan