prefiguration

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And the “Laudamus Te,” with its insistent back-and-forth reiteration of the simplest consonant harmonies, sounds like a prefiguration of Virgil Thomson’s “Four Saints in Three Acts.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

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

You might call it a prefiguration of the Bannon movie.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019

By the way, this writer, like ourselves, reads in this juvenile adventure a prefiguration of Pope's satirical destiny.

From Biographical Essays by De Quincey, Thomas