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

Tedious scenes of fighting in the first half of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, designed to prefigure that ending, come at the expense of fleshing out the character of Sharon Tate.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2019

Why does the delay of thy letter prefigure at once greater pains, ah, the greatest, before my soul?

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul