prefigure
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That certainly wasn’t the first time a Leonard Cohen song seemed to prefigure events that had not happened, or to capture a global state of mind before it fully coalesced.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
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
They prefigure his retreat from music and now, his death.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2019
You are so intelligent, and it's a blessing—whereby I prefigure it as a luxury to have a go at you.
From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by Henry James
“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
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
I merely thought it prefigured some unusual event.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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
You mention them as prefiguring the activism of the Freedom Summer.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2022
In 2017, Democrats made unexpected gains in the House of Delegates with candidates who were predominantly women and minorities, prefiguring the national trend of more diverse candidate pools.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2021
Or to free herself from the marriage, thus regaining her independence and prefiguring the political and social emancipation of women in general?
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2017
Notwithstanding the homeliness of the action, there is here a religious and mysterious significance, prefiguring the Baptism.
From Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
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