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prefigure

[pree-fig-yer] / priˈfɪg yər /


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Exhibited in New York in 1952, the works prefigure the Pop Art movement by a decade; Warhol began drawing and painting dollar signs in the early 1960s.

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2022

None prefigure a world I want to live in.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2021

Its remaining original construction — in the vernacular idiom, with touches that prefigure the Baroque, and an Orientalist flared red ceramic tile roof — dates to the late 1500s.

From New York Times • Sep. 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

It was a stirring of the Philistine in him that led him to prefigure weariness and banality in the prospect.

From The Price by Lynde, Francis




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