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harbinger

[hahr-bin-jer] / ˈhɑr bɪn dʒər /


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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

In Alphabet’s telling, its capital expenditures will “significantly increase” in 2027, which may be a harbinger for others in the sector.

From Barron's Jun. 2, 2026

Don’t be surprised if Exxon is a harbinger of more shareholder-driven relocations.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 1, 2026

And then in the lightning bolt to the head kind of way, it occurs to me that Zephyr Ravens is not a harbinger of anything at all.

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

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

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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