prefigure

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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

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

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

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

We must see him through some lenses—we must prefigure his immortality.

From Conflict of Northern and Southern Theories of Man and Society Great Speech, Delivered in New York City by Beecher, Henry Ward