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- the strife in Bloody Kansas in the 1850s adumbrated the civil war that would follow
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“Adumbrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adumbration. Accessed 21 Feb. 2020.
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The first known use of adumbrate was in 1537
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