prefigure
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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
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
Watching Road to Bali – and other titles in the series – you can see how much they prefigure the high-concept buddy comedies of Coming to America or Wedding Crashers several decades later.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2020
There is no trace of a capillitium, unless a few occasional threads in the wall of Tubulina prefigure such a structure.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
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
Social fusion of the mother country and the Colonies prefigured by the presence and influence on both sides of the Atlantic of the American element in the best society in London.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
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
Through his character, though, the show has also explored the impact of battlefield trauma, prefiguring the more explicitly mental health-conscious TV that we see today.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 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
Every act was preceded by “a dumb show,” prefiguring the incidents of the opening act; these scenical displays of something considered to be analogous to the matter were remains of the pageants.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
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