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harbinger

[hahr-bin-jer] / ˈhɑr bɪn dʒər /


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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

That may bode well for Micron, given that the South Korean stocks tend to act as a harbinger of what’s to come for the U.S. market.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 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

AI isn’t the harbinger of bleak youth unemployment—it is quite the opposite.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

And then in the lightning bolt to the head kind of way, it occurs to me that Zephyr Ravens is not a harbinger of anything at all.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

“Dreamworld” opens, in the section “Waking Dream,” with harbingers of Surrealism—fusing classicism and modernism, reality and fantasy—by Giorgio de Chirico, whom Apollinaire described as a painter of things beyond the observable.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 27, 2025

Scorsese attributed the early days of Beatlemania as harbingers of an artistic change that not only impacted the 1960s, but that can be felt in the popular culture of the present day.

From Salon Nov. 25, 2024

Washcloths are particularly controversial: “People get really riled up, like, ‘Washcloths are harbingers of bacteria,’ and ‘If you don’t use a washcloth, you’re dirty.’

From Slate Nov. 2, 2024

For people who live in particularly picturesque quarters of charming European cities, the words “Instagrammable” or “Tik-Tok famous” can feel like harbingers of doom.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2024

But some harbingers horrify the old-timers: upscale restaurants, boutique windows displaying expensive designer jewelry, and the arrival of the first-ever chain store, a Ralph Lauren shop.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times




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