prefigure
Example Sentences
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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
All of this prefigured current tensions, not least the debacle at Charlottesville.
From Seattle Times
As Padel perceives it, Beethoven early on drifted into states that prefigured how deafness would increasingly isolate him:
From New York Times
Buckingham Palace saw her as a “threat of some kind,” Diana said, prefiguring the language that her daughter-in-law used with Ms. Winfrey in March.
From New York Times
She was drawn in particular to anti-racist community-building and efforts to provide physical, mental and spiritual support that “prefigured current mutual aid projects.”
From Seattle Times
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