herald
noun
(formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
had heralded
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past perfectof herald.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Adams had heralded the shelter requirement at the start of the crisis as a display of the city’s empathy toward asylum seekers.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
Earlier government data had heralded a demographic crisis, which would in the long run shrink China's labour force and increase the burden on healthcare and other social security costs.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2023
In Ferguson, too, he experiences a new generation’s disappointment with the same President the old men in Pinckney’s barbershop had heralded with the joy of a prize long deferred.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2019
Various accounts had heralded his death in the past, only for him to surface yet again.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 27, 2019
But Helen May was watching that slow-moving column of dust, just as she had watched the cloud which had heralded the coming into her life of Holman Sommers.
From Starr, of the Desert by B. M. Bower
