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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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Higher confidence in generative AI predicted less critical thinking about the output.

— Fernando Fainzilber, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
So far, though, there’s little sign of job displacement on the scale that the two tech barons predicted.

— John Cassidy, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

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Pasteur’s experiment implied that being alive is hereditary—life, not not-life, begets life.

— Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
The documents say that the golf circuit’s largest revenue stream—sponsorships—was about $102 million in 2025 and that the total was 49% of the overall implied $208 million in revenue.

— Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 9 Sep. 2026

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Bestselling authors, fervent theater-goers, and culture critics alike have all heralded the production as a special chapter in the canon of Black theater.

— Emmalee Reed, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
In contrast, Swansea counterpart Vitor Matos has been heralded this season for reviving the sort of eye-catching football played in their Premier League days at the start of the previous decade under Brendan Rodgers and then Michael Laudrup.

— Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

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The 59th season premiere was highly anticipated following months of turbulence behind the scenes.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Nobody anticipated that these same rules would turn out to be an asset in a world shaped by volatility and executive authority.

— JONAS NAHM, Foreign Affairs, 14 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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