harbinger

Example Sentences

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It’s tough to find a holiday job this year but that’s not a harbinger of recession.

From Barron's

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From The Wall Street Journal