harbinger
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definition
noun
witch hazels are the harbingers of spring
a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another.
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In this way, Wislicenus stands as a 'harbinger' of a physical chemical, mechanistic approach to organic structure.
It's just that its call is the 'harbinger' of spring - a signal to start chucking chlorine into the swimming pool.
Monday's rallies would be important only if they are a 'harbinger' of much bigger and more confrontational demonstrations down the road.
IBM's warning last week was one of several negative signals from the industry and may be a 'harbinger' of the earnings reports to come.
Last Sunday I heard the unmistakable sound of the first cuckoo, traditional 'harbinger' of a spring election.
One might take him as a premature 'harbinger' of cultural studies, but for his important flaw of attachment to art.
The Nasdaq correction is a major signal, but not the 'harbinger' of disaster.
It's the first crack of the bat that's the true 'harbinger' of spring.
The huge rally in the bond market last Thursday, in spite of renewed dollar weakness, could be a 'harbinger' of something very important.
these works were not yet opera, but they were the most important 'harbinger' of opera
Those examples of working across different media are the most important to understand, as they are the 'harbinger' of the future.
Everyone spoke about the heat, not really sure if it was a springtime anomaly or a 'harbinger' of summer.
these works were not yet opera but they were the most important 'harbinger' of opera
Here there are obvious earth shapes that tell of a village abandoned in the seventeenth century, and we saw a lovely patch of snowdrops and aconites, the prettiest 'harbingers' of spring.
Post colonial studies have flourished in an age where IMF and World Bank austerity programmes have been renounced as 'harbingers' of neo imperialism.
The car keeps London gridlocked into a dysfunctional twentieth century, lending support for Ballard's view that it is the suburbs, not the metropolises, which are the 'harbingers' of the future.
They all seemed to be omens to me, 'harbingers' of misfortune, only multiplying the dread I was beginning to feel already for Monday.
In addition, there have been well-publicised 'harbingers' both of incipient ethnic conflict and of strong mass opposition to a long-term US military presence and a US-chosen Iraqi Government.
Najaf governor Ali al-Zurufi has just announced that he sees the 'harbingers' of a settlement of the crisis.
Pioneers of bushwalking and advocates of national parks were the 'harbingers' of an engagement with nature that at last offered respect for and restitution of the environment.
For a moment our man wondered whether the black clouds were 'harbingers' of some unforeseen ill omen, symbolic as they were of the darkness, representing the unknown.
Despite the 'harbingers' of doom the demand for electricity in Ireland continues to increase, Mr McManus told the Cork Chamber of Commerce business breakfast in association with the Irish Examiner.
Yet the fact that a few Nazis admired classical architects doesn't mean that classical architects are, perforce, the 'harbingers' of totalitarianism.
Caucasian men are either evil skirt-chasers OR the 'harbingers' of a greater civilisation - but only in their own minds.
The most obvious 'harbingers' of a life running off the rails - drugs, booze, gambling - don't seem to have figured in Rondestvedt's downfall.
Here in Minnesota, we've seen some 'harbingers' of spring too, albeit on a slower schedule - slush in the streets, dirty cars, shrinking snowpiles.
Insiders say that rumblings behind the scenes at ABC's ‘Nightline’ are 'harbingers' of possible dramatic news about the show's future.
You see, when you look at the number in terms of consumer confidence, consumer spending, there are good 'harbingers' in terms of how people are feeling about the economy.
I am told I am on Prospero's Isle, where the scent of the cempak flower is said to ease the pains of the world, where frangipani blooms rain down as 'harbingers' of a storm, where even the poverty is wrapped in shiny banana leaves.
Indeed, during the last decade the chief 'harbingers' of leftist ideas have been the cosmopolitan intellectuals rather than the working class for whom they were intended.
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