prefigure
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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
Now follows a series of miraculous signs, prodigies, mad doings, which prefigure the coming destruction.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
The rumored price increases from Samsung were prefigured in a note on the stock by Citi analyst Peter Lee last week.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
This improbable gift was succeeded by a clock-radio—a Sony Dream Machine with a blue digital display in a sleek white cube that prefigured Apple’s austere aesthetic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
It is widely understood to have prefigured the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and the rise of modern conservatism.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2025
They did not expect what this vocabulary prefigured for their lives.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2024
Unconscious Regulation of Muscles.—What is thus prefigured in early life invades every activity in later years.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
That’s one way to start a book—bracing and bitter, conveying Mary Cain’s scorn for the athletic-shoe-and-sportswear giant while prefiguring her larger message that “sports normalizes cruelty.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Aemond broke the fragile family supper truce by toasting his “strong” nephews, prefiguring battles that now seem imminent.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
Smith was prefiguring a national movement that would open more roles to artists of color.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2022
You mention them as prefiguring the activism of the Freedom Summer.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2022
This, in Judson's prefiguring, was a small matter.
From The Taming of Red Butte Western by Francis Lynde
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: pre-
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