prefigure
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Exhibited in New York in 1952, the works prefigure the Pop Art movement by a decade; Warhol began drawing and painting dollar signs in the early 1960s.
From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2022
None prefigure a world I want to live in.
From Salon • Nov. 24, 2021
People who have received the shots two to four weeks earlier should watch for symptoms that may prefigure the onset of clotting.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2021
It tempers its poppy lushness with starker, harder music, although the burbling synth that runs throughout seems to prefigure New Order’s later direction.
From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2020
These tableaux, some thirty or forty in number, are taken from scenes in the Old Testament which are supposed to prefigure acts in the life of Christ.
From The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches by Jordan, David Starr
Vocabulary lists containing prefigure
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: pre-
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