prefigure
Example Sentences
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That certainly wasn’t the first time a Leonard Cohen song seemed to prefigure events that had not happened, or to capture a global state of mind before it fully coalesced.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025
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
As an example, Alter cited Dr. Steiner’s assertion that “Antigone draws about herself an ethical solitude, a lucid dryness which seems to prefigure the stringencies of Kant.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2020
They prefigure his retreat from music and now, his death.
From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2019
"The sunshine is but a symbol of the Divine Love, the pushing buds but prefigure the Resurrection and the Life."
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
