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harbingered

verb

past tense of harbinger

as in predicted

to give a slight indication of beforehand the hope that the housing slump does not harbinger a general economic recession

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With global warming, not only will precipitation increasingly fall as rain and not snow, but atmospheric rivers are also predicted to grow more potent, bringing more intense downpours.

— Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026
Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel predicted there will be a 50-50 chance that a socialist candidate wins the presidency in 2028 against the Republican nominee, whether that is Vice President JD Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2026

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Tung’s tenure and resignation foreshadowed years of pro-democracy unrest that culminated in the 2019 protests and Beijing’s repressive national security law.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
The novel, published in 1988, foreshadowed the career to come by taking on, with disarming frankness, everything from child abuse to transracial adoption.

— Casey Cep, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

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President Biden created the agency in 2023, when it was heralded as a clearinghouse for labs to voluntarily submit advanced AI models for testing.

— Garance Burke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
The publication in 2024 of former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s report on European competitiveness heralded a shift in attitudes.

— Andrew McAfee, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2026

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Station Eleven, the Canadian novelist’s 2014 breakthrough, anticipated the outbreak of a worldwide pandemic.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 28 Sep. 2026
The team anticipated this when preparing for put the quantum computer in space and encased the device in centimeter-thick, aerospace-grade aluminum.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026

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Other Black families tried to hold on under the new regime but ultimately found Wilmington untenable and moved north, joining a local exodus that prefigured the Great Migration.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
In July 1962, Froio prefigured her lifelong involvement with the Hamptons by writing a piece for WWD about what was selling at the boutiques in West Hampton, commenting on the merchandise at stores called Le Sorelle (The Sisters) and Treasure Trove.

— Lorna Koski, Footwear News, 11 June 2026

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