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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An ugly start is not necessarily a harbinger of worse things to come.
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Edwards was no more than a harbinger of the new way.
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In the past, comets were feared harbingers of important historical events, including invasions and major disasters.
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Many analysts say a weak January in the small-cap arena is a harbinger of underperformance of the sector for the year.
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The structure of agriculture makes it difficult to treat the peasant drive for noble land as the harbinger of rural capitalism.
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They were the harbingers of something terrible.
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This was a harbinger of glasnost to come.