prefigure

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None prefigure a world I want to live in.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2021

Its remaining original construction — in the vernacular idiom, with touches that prefigure the Baroque, and an Orientalist flared red ceramic tile roof — dates to the late 1500s.

From New York Times • Sep. 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

But Warner Bros has undergone a series of personnel shake-ups under Stankey that prefigure the HBO Max controversy.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2020

There is no trace of a capillitium, unless a few occasional threads in the wall of Tubulina prefigure such a structure.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)