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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
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
Pretypify, prē-tip′i-fī, v.t. to represent by a type what is to happen: to prefigure.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Vocabulary lists containing prefigure
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: pre-
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