harbinger
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What happened to Native Californians was also a harbinger, not a footnote.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
But rather than being a harbinger of doom, Emanuel says, the shift is more a reflection of how AI-related risks have seeped into other markets, such as emerging-market stocks, bonds and corporate credit.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Macau, a gambling hub, could be a harbinger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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
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
They are also matter-of-fact, heralds of hard facts rather than harbingers of national guilt in a story to which we think we know the ending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
Modern Western culture caricatures vultures as undertakers, grim harbingers of death and hardly ideal images of maternal love.
From Salon ● May 11, 2025
Bulbs are defiant harbingers of spring in colder climes, sometimes pushing up through the snow in their zeal to greet the sun and spread a little color on a bleak landscape of slushy grays.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025
They are the first harbingers of a tradition of portraiture that will continue unbroken until the collapse of the Roman Empire.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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