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• Auder’s obsessive videomaking prefigures the relentless narcissism of our current self-publishing mania, but there’s artfulness to his seemingly unmediated recording.2009 March 18, Nathan Lee, “A Life Videotaping Life Has Become a Movie”, in New York Times. From the entry videomaking
• Oldenburg’s legendary Happenings, the anarchic, semiscripted group performances involving sculptural props and sets that prefigured today’s performance art.2009 May 17, Carol Kino, “Going Softly Into a Parallel Universe”, in New York Times. From the entry semiscripted
• In the last third of the Iliad, Achilles’ beloved companion, Patroklos, and his bitter enemy, Hektor, die wearing Achilles’ armor, their deaths prefiguring Achilles’ own.2012, Richard Holway, Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington…. From the entry Achilles
• The community of radio amateurs—trespassing fiddlers on the cutting edge of technological possibilities—prefigured the geek community that was to inhabit Silicon Valley 50 years later.2012, Fiorenza Belussi, Udo Hermann Staber, Managing Networks of Creativity, page 92. From the entry geek
• Later Merovingian hands, however, often from Italy and drawing heavily from half uncials, prefigured the later Carolingian minuscule and achieved a certain graceful legibility.2001, Steven Roger Fischer, History of Writing, published 2003, page 247. From the entry Carolingian minuscule
• Why and how did the Cacafile eat the Scroll and is this prefigured in the Patmosian LSD (Laus Semper Deo) vision of John the Apostle?1964, The Hollins Critic - Volumes 1-7, page 11. From the entry Patmosian
• Constructivism wasn't just Russian state propaganda - its blend of optimism and pragmatism and its emphasis on equality and the collective prefigured key developments in 20th-century art.2009 February 10, “Rodchenko and Popova at Tate Modern”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry constructivism
• These prefigure the more complex aspects of virtual and real interactions which the cyber will deliver to us in these early years of the new millennium.2004, Henry Linger, Julie Fisher, W. Gregory Wojtkowski, Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy: Methods and Tools…. From the entry cyber
• The word mourning is such an amorce, which prefigures the novel's denouement and also suggests that Jean's rejection of their daughter is tantamount to "killing" her.1994, Irène Assiba d' Almeida, Francophone African Women Writers, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry amorce

Meaning of prefigure

1. verb To show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand.
2. verb To predict or foresee.
3. noun That which prefigures or appears to predict; a harbinger.

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How do you use prefigure in a sentence?

Prefigure is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai, all prefigure NRx urban futures.”

What is a short sentence with prefigure?

“Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai, all prefigure NRx urban futures.”

What does prefigure mean?

Prefigure means to show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand.