prefiguration

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It’s a prefiguration — of how to think, how to collaborate, and how to stay sane when the private is gone.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2024

Since the early 20th century, Cycladic figures have had iconic power for contemporary artists, as an ancient prefiguration of abstraction.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022

“I wouldn’t say it’s a prefiguration of Romanticism; it is already Romantic. Rather, he goes straight to contemporary music, straight to Alban Berg.”

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2021

You might call it a prefiguration of the Bannon movie.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019

The allusion is to the redemption of mankind by the sufferings and compassionate death of Christ; and that stupendous tragedy is the prefiguration of the mimic drama which Wagner has constructed.

From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Krehbiel, Henry Edward