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harbinger

[hahr-bin-jer] / ˈhɑr bɪn dʒər /


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Industry leaders have been warning that recent cyberattacks are a harbinger.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 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

"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

As Blackmon notes: “The apparent demise...of leasing prisoners seemed a harbinger of a new day. But the harsher reality of the South was that the new post-Civil War neoslavery was evolving—not disappearing.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

From BBC Apr. 19, 2026

Here, the harbingers of the new golden age of the old-school American tavern.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

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

From Salon May 11, 2025

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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