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
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
But Warner Bros has undergone a series of personnel shake-ups under Stankey that prefigure the HBO Max controversy.
From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2020
What action he would take when he should recover was as easy to prefigure as it was, for the present at least, a matter negligible.
From The Price by Lynde, Francis
Vocabulary lists containing prefigure
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: pre-
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