prefigure
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But the Duma’s approval on second reading, when a proposal still can undergo substantial changes, almost always prefigures a law’s enactment.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2022
Its iconic five-note figure prefigures decades of American experimentation with our own music — it doesn’t just sound like “An American in Paris,” it sounds American, in Paris.
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022
Winchell’s television work, which often employed hidden actors to supply the characters with arms and hands while Winchell worked the head and mouth, prefigures an ambidextrous Muppet like Cookie Monster.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2021
The other filmmaker is Keiichi Tanaami, whose expanded cinema — also screened at Killer Joe’s — prefigures his later, Peter Max-ish blend of art and commerce.
From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2020
Oresme took the idea of a rotating earth seriously, and thus prefigures Copernicus.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing prefigure
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: pre-
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