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Six example sentences with harbinger, each labelled with its topic.
The first swallows over the marsh are a harbinger of spring, arriving a week before the reeds turn green.
Environment
A sudden drop in freight bookings is often a harbinger of a slowdown that shows up in earnings months later.
Finance
In the opera a low drum is the harbinger of the storm, sounding a full minute before any rain falls.
Music
Rising cardboard orders are a quiet harbinger of factory output, since goods need boxes before they need buyers.
Economics
A trickle of timeout errors was the harbinger of the outage, appearing in the logs an hour before the site fell over.
Technology
One lost council seat was the harbinger of the landslide, the first crack a year before the national vote.
Politics
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