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The phrase "an harbinger" is not correct in written English; it should be "a harbinger." You can use "a harbinger" when referring to something that signals or foreshadows a future event or situation.
Example: "The sudden drop in temperature was a harbinger of the harsh winter to come."
Alternatives: "a precursor" or "a forerunner."
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He also points to Ushahidi, a company that has used crowd-sourced information to map political violence in Kenya, among other things, as an harbinger of future techniques.Sometimes reliable statistics can be tallied only after a war has ended.
You can forgive the stray eyebrow hair and claim that one grey hair atop your head is "premature"; the stray grey short and curly, however, feels like an harbinger of mortality.
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