prefigurement

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prefigurement
Noun
  • The Art Institute offered a foretaste of the collection through two exhibitions — one focused on Neoclassical paintings, the other on French Revolution-era drawings — in the fall.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Is this a foretaste of the next four years?
    Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 22 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Matthew stresses royalty, prefacing the birth with heavenly portents; afterward, Magi bear royal gifts to a future king.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
  • But the attacks could have been interpreted very differently: as a horrific case of blowback and a portent of resistance to U.S. hegemony.
    Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 17 Mar. 2023
Noun
  • If April’s output is any indication, clearing 49,000 outstanding PSLF requests could take well over two and a half years.
    Shahar Ziv, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • This week, keep an eye out on earnings from Home Depot, Target and TJX for an indication of how the American consumer has been holding up — and how those big retailers will deal with tariffs.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Studios could all use that sort of good news, and good omens for the rest of summer movie season.
    Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Trump's experience with special elections as omens Republicans now have 220 House seats, Democrats 213.
    Susan Page, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Scientists are urging health care providers in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware to be on the lookout for symptoms of the disease, which is easiest to treat when it’s caught early.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
  • The more recognizable symptoms of COPD range from a nagging cough, chronic mucus production, fatigue, or breathlessness.
    Team Verywell Health, Verywell Health, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • So their arrival in the world of the New Avengers may be a harbinger of scary things to come.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 2 May 2025
  • Was Clase’s poor showing against the New York Yankees in last season’s playoffs a harbinger of pending problems?
    Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • What names have new popes taken? More: Praying for white smoke: Papal conclave uses centuries-old method to announce a new pope Historians will study the name for clues to its meanings and connotations.
    George Petras, USA Today, 9 May 2025
  • But the program does not provide any clues as to who that successor could be – and none of the potential successors are given any exposure.
    Peter Rutland, The Conversation, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • The result is chaos, bewilderment and delay that presages rising consumer prices.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • There’s a kind of implicit prayer in this that the withering of today’s Hollywood system is a presage for something better, giving the entire production a painful, nostalgic quality that tugs at your chest even as what unfolds before you is remarkably dumb.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2025
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“Prefigurement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prefigurement. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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