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

But even as the spare language of her lines endows them with a monumental feel, their brevity and levity also prefigure the semiotically fraught short exchanges of the texting era.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 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

Tedious scenes of fighting in the first half of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, designed to prefigure that ending, come at the expense of fleshing out the character of Sharon Tate.

From The Guardian • Aug. 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