harbinger

Example Sentences

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The biggest harbinger that things were about to fall apart in Iran didn’t come from the thwarted anger of the country’s opposition or the frustrated hopes of young people hungry for more personal freedom.

From The Wall Street Journal

Louise Adler, the Jewish daughter of Holocaust survivors, said "I cannot be party to silencing writers" and that Abdel-Fattah's exclusion "weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation."

From BBC

At 28 years old, Jackson is coming off a difficult season marred by injuries that could serve as a harbinger of what’s to come as he enters the third act of his career.

From The Wall Street Journal

ADP’s private-sector employment report will come out on Wednesday, two days ahead of the government’s data, but is not often seen as a reliable harbinger.

From MarketWatch

It’s a delicate harbinger of the great catastrophe to come.

From The Wall Street Journal