prefigure

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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

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

Such discourse could prefigure new restrictions on speech in Hong Kong, a possibility that seems to be inching incrementally closer.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2019

Pretypify, prē-tip′i-fī, v.t. to represent by a type what is to happen: to prefigure.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various