harbinger

For cooks, the first harbinger of this season is the arrival of newly published dessert cookbooks.

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.

The small, rich country has at times proved a harbinger of broader trends across Europe.

She’s no longer a difficult woman but a harbinger of wrath.

To others, however, OpenAI is something akin to tulip mania, the harbinger of the Great Depression, or the next dot-com bubble.