prefigure
Example Sentences
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With Lanegan serving as their imposing baritone front man, Screaming Trees was a psychedelia-tinged hard rock unit whose heavyweight early albums prefigured the explosion of grunge rock in Washington state.
From Fox News
I hadn’t really prefigured how different it would be.
From New York Times
This broader canvas prefigured a series of long, probing articles on political subjects, often written for The New York Review of Books.
From New York Times
His assassination in 1947 just months before Myanmar — then called Burma — was freed from British colonial rule prefigured the country’s extended turbulence.
From Seattle Times
None prefigure a world I want to live in.
From Salon
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