adumbrate

His photographs have used a variety of techniques to adumbrate this world.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2017

Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian But as soon as you adumbrate thus, you are beset with misgivings.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2016

Together with the bare facts of the retreat at Walden, those lines have become the ones by which we adumbrate Thoreau, so that our image of the man has also become simplified and inspirational.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015

Luther, Calvin and Wesley are as upstarts to him, whose phrases adumbrate the flowery staff of St. Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury.

From Time Magazine Archive

A type is a symbol appointed by God to adumbrate something higher in the future, which is called the antitype.

From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)

More than any juice cleanse or lottery win or career switch, a foreign language adumbrates a vision of a parallel life.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016

But they furnish such extensive extracts from diaries and letters, as well as such detailed ''work histories'' of the compositions, that their valuable book adumbrates the shape of many biographies and studies to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

The eyes of education are fixed always upon the future, and philosophy of whatever kind, directly adumbrates a Utopia, thinks on educational lines.

From Cambridge Essays on Education by Various

Of the six "Idyls," three—"In the Woods," "Siesta," and "To the Moonlight"—are memorable, though uneven; and of these the third, after Goethe's "An den Mond," adumbrates faintly MacDowell's riper manner.

From Edward MacDowell by Gilman, Lawrence

The figure of the villain, too, adumbrates, though faintly, the type which engaged Hawthorne's mind in later years.

From Nathaniel Hawthorne by Woodberry, George Edward

Passages of the original work underlined and adumbrated with exclamation marks and double or even treble question marks; phrases scored out and notes running down the margin at right angles to the printed text.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020

His work on neuroscience and his initial support of McCulloch and Pitts adumbrated the startlingly effective deep-learning methods of the present day.

From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2019

But while lauding the rights and privileges of the Americans he observed, Tocqueville also adumbrated the responsibilities that came with being an American citizen.

From Time ● Nov. 2, 2016

And thus the fragility of this vast ecosystem is adumbrated by the suggestion of decay on the newly restored walls of the gallery.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2015

Now pray get us a full light on all other names and localities that are adumbrated in this said Shirley. 

From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Shorter, Clement King

The filmmakers build to this moment as if it were D-Day or the Rumble in the Jungle, excavating a biographical Before and adumbrating a news media After.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2015

In Wisconsin last week, Nixon gave a paid, 20-minute nationwide radio speech adumbrating a broad and basically moderate approach to the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

Liddy continued, adumbrating by the remark the track her thoughts had taken.

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas

In three centuries, already some outline has been sketched, rudely adumbrating the future settlement destined for the planet, some infant castrametation has been marked out for the future encampment of nations.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

Adum′brant, Adum′brative, adumbrating or giving a faint shadow.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various