harbinger
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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
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
That may bode well for Micron, given that the South Korean stocks tend to act as a harbinger of what’s to come for the U.S. market.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 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
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
They swept toward her, harbingers of the storm that was to come.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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