harbinger
noun
a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
harbingers
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pluralof harbinger.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Whales, she said, can be harbingers of bigger changes under the surface of the ocean.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026
They are also matter-of-fact, heralds of hard facts rather than harbingers of national guilt in a story to which we think we know the ending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
Bulbs are defiant harbingers of spring in colder climes, sometimes pushing up through the snow in their zeal to greet the sun and spread a little color on a bleak landscape of slushy grays.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025
Scorsese attributed the early days of Beatlemania as harbingers of an artistic change that not only impacted the 1960s, but that can be felt in the popular culture of the present day.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
They swept toward her, harbingers of the storm that was to come.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
