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prefigure

[pree-fig-yer] / priˈfɪg yər /


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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

There was a maid going by with her charge, one of those glowing fair-haired English children who supply us with the images by which we prefigure the angelic choirs.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter




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