prefigure

Early on, when the heroine, the novice Isabella, is introduced with a prayer, the music seems to prefigure “Parsifal.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2022

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

But Warner Bros has undergone a series of personnel shake-ups under Stankey that prefigure the HBO Max controversy.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2020

When Christ had come, and once for all made atonement as the Lamb of God, a ceremony to prefigure His sacrifice was out of place.

From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Lady Mary Ross

“That selectivity is prefigured, and preprogrammed, by the history of Christendom.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

He prefigured today’s globalized music economy long before it had language for itself, though his influence has often been oddly glossed over.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

Indeed, the epic “Rock Show” prefigured McCartney’s plans for conquering the rock ‘n’ roll box office.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2025

“It is true,” writes Preger, “that Dante saw these two women prefigured in a dream as Leah and Rachel, and that Leah said, referring to her sister, ‘Her seeing, and me doing, satisfies.’

From Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg by Matilda of Magdeburg

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

You mention them as prefiguring the activism of the Freedom Summer.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2022

Centrally, though, Chéri evolved a portrait of independent-minded women living in the shadow of slavery, but prefiguring a time when black women might have access to a world that recognized them as equals.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2020

Now this was not at all the paternal attitude as the young man had been prefiguring it.

From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Francis Lynde