prefigure

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Watt came to office flaunting a born-again religious persona that he often exploited to justify treating political and environmental opponents with contempt, prefiguring the rise of the evangelical right wing in American politics.

From Los Angeles Times

This was not a rendition of the Mahler who prefigured Shostakovich.

From New York Times

That production, which visited New York’s Park Avenue Armory in 2018, prefigures “Phaedra,” a version based on those by Euripides, Seneca and Racine.

From Washington Post

Here, Khoury prefigures the consequences of the complete U.S. pullout in 2021, focusing on a man whose cooperation has labeled him an enemy of the authoritarian insurgents.

From Washington Post

The End — the big one — is prefigured in “Endgame,” Samuel Beckett’s bracing portrait of humanity’s benighted shuffle to doomsday.

From Washington Post