Canary in example sentence

And yet it is also the proverbial canary in the coalmine, signaling a broad populist/nationalist backlash – at least in advanced economies – against globalization, free trade, offshoring, labor migration, market-oriented policies, supranational authorities, and even technological change.

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It's being produced in large amounts, 150 to 180 metric tons per year in the Canary Islands in Peru, and it's big business.

In 1962, with Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," I think for people like me in the world of the making of things, the canary in the mine wasn't singing.

It's like the canary in the coalmine.

I select this one because it was 1973, and it was a master plan for one of the Canary Islands.

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