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prefigure

[pree-fig-yer] / priˈfɪg yər /


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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

It tempers its poppy lushness with starker, harder music, although the burbling synth that runs throughout seems to prefigure New Order’s later direction.

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2020

The fertile and profound fancy of Greece delighted to prefigure this truth in significant symbols and myths.

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Brinton, Daniel Garrison




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