harbinger
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But rather than being a harbinger of doom, Emanuel says, the shift is more a reflection of how AI-related risks have seeped into other markets, such as emerging-market stocks, bonds and corporate credit.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
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
Another harbinger of bad things is a very wide range of target prices, which is the case with SpaceX.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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
Was this the harbinger of a new war, one that would draw in the United States?
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Whales, she said, can be harbingers of bigger changes under the surface of the ocean.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026
“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
They swept toward her, harbingers of the storm that was to come.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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