prefigure

Example Sentences

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The goal is to equip and train the Marine Corps for a new kind of warfare that the fighting in Ukraine has already prefigured.

From BBC

And Ronald Weinstein, prefiguring the world we live in now, showed that among the many things that can be done remotely, one was to diagnose cancer.

From New York Times

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

The composer had died decades before Adolf Hitler came to power, but his antisemitism prefigured and inspired the atrocities of the Third Reich.

From Washington Post

Two events prefigured the dusting off of the Paramount.

From Los Angeles Times