adumbrates

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More than any juice cleanse or lottery win or career switch, a foreign language adumbrates a vision of a parallel life.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016

But they furnish such extensive extracts from diaries and letters, as well as such detailed ''work histories'' of the compositions, that their valuable book adumbrates the shape of many biographies and studies to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his letter to Payne of 23rd December 1882, Burton adumbrates a visit eastward.

From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas

But now, while we are shown that the moral sense doctrine in its original form is not true, we are also shown that it adumbrates a truth, and a much higher truth.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

The figure of the villain, too, adumbrates, though faintly, the type which engaged Hawthorne's mind in later years.

From Nathaniel Hawthorne by Woodberry, George Edward