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harbinger

[hahr-bin-jer] / ˈhɑr bɪn dʒər /


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Jefferies equities trading analyst Jeffrey Favuzza said he believed investors were focused on whether IBM’s preliminary results are “a harbinger of what we are braced for” with ServiceNow’s and SAP’s results set for next week.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 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

But that decision now appears to be an outlier, not a harbinger.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 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

Was this the harbinger of a new war, one that would draw in the United States?

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

“Dreamworld” opens, in the section “Waking Dream,” with harbingers of Surrealism—fusing classicism and modernism, reality and fantasy—by Giorgio de Chirico, whom Apollinaire described as a painter of things beyond the observable.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 27, 2025

Jaclyn’s heavy gold comedy and drama mask earrings are harbingers of the two-faced backstabbing ahead.

From Salon Mar. 10, 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

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

But some harbingers horrify the old-timers: upscale restaurants, boutique windows displaying expensive designer jewelry, and the arrival of the first-ever chain store, a Ralph Lauren shop.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times




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