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harbinger

[hahr-bin-jer] / ˈhɑr bɪn dʒər /


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The educator aims to raise awareness among visitors about the plight of the animals, as fewer whale sightings is just a harbinger of larger negative changes to come to the marine ecosystem.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

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

"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

Investors and corporate leaders see this as a natural shift from unbridled experimentation to something a little more measured, rather than some harbinger of doom for the AI race.

From The Wall Street Journal May 31, 2026

This is how I think of him: like his namesake, the raven, a harbinger of death and doom.

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

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

The newly identified species are believed to be harbingers of more to come.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 29, 2024

If they lingered too long over the front page of the Times or the Post-Intelligencer, though, Seattleites could not avoid seeing harbingers of other troubles to come.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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