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
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
Compared with the extensive parks of modern cities the Monte Pincio would prefigure itself as a drive for fairies alone.
From Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting
In its range of diverse styles, his work prefigured the eclectic jazz of the 21st century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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
Their accoutrements prefigured in an absurd way the resources of the Confederacy at a later date.
From Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction by Joel Chandler Harris
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
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
“To let the baby out,” she writes, prefiguring Christle’s riff on decomposition, and also making it painfully literal, “you have to be willing to go to pieces.”
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2020
The tableaux from the Old Testament prefiguring events in the New are absent also.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: pre-
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