harbinger

Example Sentences

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The study warned the case was a "harbinger" of the pollution to come, given how many rockets will be needed to launch all the satellites that Earth is planning to blast into space.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

Louise Adler, the Jewish daughter of Holocaust survivors, said "I cannot be party to silencing writers" and that Abdel-Fattah's exclusion "weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation."

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026

A harbinger of disaster is a replica of the harness-like 2,842 carat necklace from the “Diamond Necklace Affair” of 1785.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

ADP’s private-sector employment report will come out on Wednesday, two days ahead of the government’s data, but is not often seen as a reliable harbinger.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 6, 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