prefigure

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Here, Khoury prefigures the consequences of the complete U.S. pullout in 2021, focusing on a man whose cooperation has labeled him an enemy of the authoritarian insurgents.

From Washington Post

The End — the big one — is prefigured in “Endgame,” Samuel Beckett’s bracing portrait of humanity’s benighted shuffle to doomsday.

From Washington Post

The goal is to equip and train the Marine Corps for a new kind of warfare that the fighting in Ukraine has already prefigured.

From BBC

And Ronald Weinstein, prefiguring the world we live in now, showed that among the many things that can be done remotely, one was to diagnose cancer.

From New York Times

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