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prefigure

[pree-fig-yer] / priˈfɪg yər /


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Early on, when the heroine, the novice Isabella, is introduced with a prayer, the music seems to prefigure “Parsifal.”

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2022

None prefigure a world I want to live in.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2021

But even as the spare language of her lines endows them with a monumental feel, their brevity and levity also prefigure the semiotically fraught short exchanges of the texting era.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 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

You are so intelligent, and it's a blessing—whereby I prefigure it as a luxury to have a go at you.

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry




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