harbinger
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What happened to Native Californians was also a harbinger, not a footnote.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Industry leaders have been warning that recent cyberattacks are a harbinger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Indeed, that might be a more troubling story: Economists say that weak crude demand could be a harbinger of economic weakness ahead.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 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
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
Startups have long been harbingers of broader workforce and technology trends, such as the rise of the product manager and the shift to “digital-first” business models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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
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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