as in herald
one that announces or indicates the later arrival of another
her father's successful job interview was seen as a harbinger of better times to come
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as in to herald
to give a slight indication of beforehand
the hope that the housing slump does not harbinger a general economic recession
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Recent Examples of harbinger
Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 17 Mar. 2025
The endorsement is a harbinger of Dorsey’s ambitious vision for AI — equipping individuals and enterprises with open, adaptable AI tools.
—Tor Constantino, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
These are a harbinger of what’s to come if the Trump administration carries through on its threats to crack down on any and all who exercise their First Amendment rights to free speech and protest.
—Nisha Whitehead, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025
But for the speaker's critics and supporters alike, the showdown served as a harbinger of what's to come over the next two years in Congress.
—Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
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Noun
But these domestic shifts should not be understood as harbingers of a grand reopening to the West.
—Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 17 Mar. 2025
The endorsement is a harbinger of Dorsey’s ambitious vision for AI — equipping individuals and enterprises with open, adaptable AI tools.
—Tor Constantino, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
These are a harbinger of what’s to come if the Trump administration carries through on its threats to crack down on any and all who exercise their First Amendment rights to free speech and protest.
—Nisha Whitehead, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025
But for the speaker's critics and supporters alike, the showdown served as a harbinger of what's to come over the next two years in Congress.
—Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for harbinger
Noun
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The authors of the Yale study sincerely see themselves as heralds of empirical science, whatever the political ramifications.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2025
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This sleek argent-toned agent was once Norrin Radd, a historian from the planet Zenn-La who signed up to be Galactus’ herald to spare his homeworld from an unthinkable fate.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
12 Mar. 2025
Verb
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As that single foreshadowed, Will Smith now has a new album out, his first in 20 years, Based on a True Story.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
28 Mar. 2025
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Saturday's actions were foreshadowed two weeks ago, when Gavin Kliger, a former Twitter software engineer who is now part of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team, was spotted inside VOA headquarters, sources told Axios.—
Sara Fischer,
Axios,
16 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Yet this brand of Christian Zionism is clearly the forerunner to today’s – and holds sway in Washington.—
Shalom Goldman,
The Conversation,
2 Apr. 2025
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The title is an apt, if sort of obvious, introduction to Turner, who has been hailed as the forerunner to modern art.—
Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Artificial intelligence is transforming climate change prediction and rapidly becoming one of the most powerful tools available to predict, manage and mitigate the effects of climate change.—
Heather Wishart-Smith,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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The ratio also could be used to predict eventual memory loss in people who have a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In addition, neighborhoods would no longer be required — as a precursor to meters — to test out two-hour and three-hour parking zones enforced by chalking tires instead of meters.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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Directed by Arthur Penn, who brought a bold visual style, frank sexuality and graphic, balletic violence to a Hollywood dominated by optimistic pictures, this countercultural romance served as a precursor to the generational tension and mistrust in authority that was quietly pervading the country.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
Verb
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This implies a poor Debt-to-Equity Ratio of 64.7% (vs. 19.0% for S&P 500).—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Such methodology doesn’t necessarily align with the conventional approach for calculating tariffs and implies the U.S. would have looked at only the trade deficit in goods and ignored trade in services.—
Neelabh Chaturvedi, Asriel Chua,
CNBC,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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A number of protesters carried signs about the stock market tanking and the high tariffs Trump has promised to impose on goods coming in from around the globe.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
5 Apr. 2025
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The peaceful protesters waved signs targeting Trump and Musk.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2025
Verb
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More about Jason Zinoman Inside the World of Comedy A new documentary shows how Andy Kaufman’s upside-down world of anti-comedy prefigured our own.—
Jason Zinoman,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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With his extraordinary series of books prefiguring the rockets and robots that could set the stage for the human exploration and transformation of Mars, Zubrin is widely considered the supreme conceptual creator of a future Eden-like New World on Mars.—
Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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