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
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
It tempers its poppy lushness with starker, harder music, although the burbling synth that runs throughout seems to prefigure New Order’s later direction.
From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2020
There was a maid going by with her charge, one of those glowing fair-haired English children who supply us with the images by which we prefigure the angelic choirs.
From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: pre-
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