prefigure

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None prefigure a world I want to live in.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 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

As an example, Alter cited Dr. Steiner’s assertion that “Antigone draws about herself an ethical solitude, a lucid dryness which seems to prefigure the stringencies of Kant.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2020

Such discourse could prefigure new restrictions on speech in Hong Kong, a possibility that seems to be inching incrementally closer.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2019

The beautiful, wicked Circe is intended to prefigure the human passions, the impulse of the senses.

From Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians by Velde, Carl Franz van der