harbinger
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Local real-estate agents say it’s a harbinger of things to come for the Florida coastal city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
What happened to Native Californians was also a harbinger, not a footnote.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 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
By now it’s clear that Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral victory in New York last year over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo was less a fluke than a harbinger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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
This eastward movement of warmer water is one of the harbingers of El Niño.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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
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
Our present spaceships, with their robot crews, are the harbingers, the vanguards of future human expeditions to the planets.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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