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Recent Examples of canary And yet the remix, featuring TikTok star Addison Rae, was the real canary in a coal mine for the whole Brat movement. Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024 After the woman delivered a healthy baby boy, her symptoms led to a cancer diagnosis, and doctors theorized that the NIPT had been the canary in the coal mine: Her tumors were shedding abnormal DNA into the bloodstream, which skewed the prenatal test results. Byjennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 4 Dec. 2024 Cats, however, may turn out to be the canaries in the coalmines — pardon the mixed metaphor. Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 24 Dec. 2024 There is a loud warning in all of this, and Batman is sort of the canary in the coal mine. Mark Hughes, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for canary
Recent Examples of Synonyms for canary
Noun
  • The actual murder sounds much more like a spontaneous crime of passion than the work of a veteran hitman exacting punishment on a guy suspected of being an FBI informant.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Gledhill allegedly told the informant he was buried somewhere north of their Cottonwood Heights home, per the detention hearing.
    Toria Sheffield, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Ukrainian soldiers began to see Russian civilians as a hindrance — or worse, as potential informers who could give away their positions.
    Ekaterina Bodyagina Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The arrests were part of wide-ranging Establishment attacks on the new generation of pop stars in Britain at the time, done through connivance with informers and a hostile conservative media.
    Bill Wyman, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • After a roll call where each reveals their imminent reprisal of fan-favorite Dimension 20 characters — including a Staten Island divorcee, a wisecracking pizza rat, and a drug dealer still coping from a breakup — the game begins.
    Eric Francisco, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Grissom was a baseball rat, young and versatile, sure of himself on the field and a menace in the box.
    Chad Jennings, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025

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“Canary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canary. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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