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Recent Examples of prefigure The details are what captivate; chrome strips on the hood and sides, and exquisite chrome hood hinges prefiguring the decklid hinges on Ferrari’s 275 GTB/4. Robert Ross, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2024 Woody’s facial-recognition research in the 1960s prefigured all these technological breakthroughs and their queasy ethical implications. Shaun Raviv, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2020 The index, which measures wholesale prices – and thus generally prefigures changes in the CPI – was unchanged in September from August, defying expectations from a Dow Jones survey of a 0.1% increase. Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024 Westchester County during the Revolutionary War prefigured the Wild West before that concept had entered a dime novelist’s mind. Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for prefigure
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Verb
  • Stylistically, The Interrogation foreshadows the conventions that would characterize Wang’s later works.
    Philip Tinari, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
  • As with previous outings, death is foreshadowed before flashing back one week earlier to the guests’ arrival at the elite five-star White Lotus resort.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Women possessed by the gods were oracles, predicting the future in cryptic utterances.
    Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Tremble didn’t have the 2024 season that many predicted.
    Alex Zietlow and, Charlotte Observer, 9 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • This implies a very strong Debt-to-Equity Ratio of 2.1% (vs. 19.0% for S&P 500).
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Jonas’ price target of $430 implies shares can rebound 93.6% over the next year from Monday’s closing level.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The fruit was heralded as far back as the year 1279 as the preferred fruit of the royal court and emperors.
    Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
  • When the Archaeopteryx was discovered around 1861, it was heralded as evidence that birds were soaring in the skies by the end of the Jurassic Period.
    Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • But Kline said the scale of the warehouse is something that homeowners could never have anticipated.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Every organization anticipates retirements and resignations.
    Sherzod Odilov, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025

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“Prefigure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prefigure. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.

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