Tim Sweeney

We feel the game industry is changing in some major ways. 'Fortnite' is a harbinger of things to come. It's a massive number of people all playing together, interacting together, not just playing but socializing.

American Businessman

Bernard Barton

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

American Poet

Charles Kendall Adams

In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.

American Educator

Jenna Wortham

The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, that the sun or the moon vanishing from the sky was a harbinger of disaster, a sign of devastation or destruction to come.

American Journalist

Joseph Stiglitz

The Paris climate agreement may be a harbinger of the spirit and mindset needed to sustain genuine global cooperation.

American Economist

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Austrian Novelist

Adam Michnik

For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.

Polish Editor

Charlie Brooker

English Critic

Bruce Lipton

American Scientist

Alan Stern

Harbinger frequently suggests a negative or foreboding future event, but not always.

Often Ominous

'Harbinger' can be used metaphorically to represent an early sign of things to come.

Not Always Literal

In some contexts, harbinger can signal positive changes or beginnings.

Neutral or Positive

 Florida has really changed and it's a harbinger of other changes to come in Florida I would say I would not yet say it's unwinnable for a Republican the polls are still pretty close but but if these trends continue it will be soon unwinnable for a Republican candidate

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 a phenomenal achievement. And it's that kind of innovation that's why those on the fringes are often the harbingers of what is to come. It's easy to forget that because of its short life,