prefigure
verb
, especially British -ˈfi-gə\
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, especially British -ˈfi-gə- \
noun
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adumbrate, forerun, foreshadow, harbinger, herald
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In so many ways Davis prefigured today's workaholic NFL exec. — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, "How the Influence of Al Davis Shaped the Modern NFL," 27 Aug. 2019 In many instances, prefiguring modern Jordan’s respect for diversity, artisans of old covered the forbidden floor designs with geometric or calligraphic patterns, some of which are now being lifted to reveal the originals below. — Andrew Solomon, Condé Nast Traveler, "Traveling Through Jordan’s Historic Ruins, Red Dunes, and Dead Sea," 24 July 2019 Eva’s name, the Latinate of Eve, prefigures her role in the post-apocalyptic world. — Maria Garcia, latimes.com, "Review: Zombies are the threat in the dark fairy tale ‘Endzeit — Ever After’," 25 June 2019 Obsession, if anything, prefigured the kind of fear and hatred of Islam and Muslims that Trump has made mainstream and effectively turned into policy, the Muslim travel ban being only the most flagrant example. — Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, "‘Orientalism,’ Then and Now," 20 May 2019 The vigorous asymmetry of Chapelle’s composition and his breezy, sketchlike draftsmanship not only reflect contemporaneous Rococo painters like François Boucher, but seem to prefigure early 20th-century poster design. — Barrymore Laurence Scherer, WSJ, "‘Masterpieces of French Faience: Selections From the Sidney R. Knafel Collection’ Review: Not Dishwasher Safe," 1 Jan. 2019 Roasting people’s low batteries in screenshots prefigured that. — Bijan Stephen, The Verge, "Roasting each other for our battery life in screenshots brought the internet together," 13 Aug. 2018 Aggressively pretty clothes were worn in a fume flecked background that prefigured the gilet jaunes Parisian chaos of the last few months. — Vogue, "Vogue Editors Share Their Favorite Fashion Shows of the Year," 28 Dec. 2018 In many ways, the series prefigured what 2016’s Rogue One was trying to accomplish: tell a standalone story in the larger Star Wars universe, apart from the main saga story. — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, "The next big Star Wars book will follow a squadron of rebel pilots hunting down the Empire," 5 Oct. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'prefigure.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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