prefiguration

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It’s a prefiguration — of how to think, how to collaborate, and how to stay sane when the private is gone.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2024

Since the early 20th century, Cycladic figures have had iconic power for contemporary artists, as an ancient prefiguration of abstraction.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022

“I wouldn’t say it’s a prefiguration of Romanticism; it is already Romantic. Rather, he goes straight to contemporary music, straight to Alban Berg.”

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2021

You might call it a prefiguration of the Bannon movie.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019

It is an advance movement in the East, bringing substance and actuality to much that in Buddhism is but vaporous ideality and bewildering prefiguration.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)