prefigurement

Recent Examples of Synonyms for prefigurement
Noun
  • The Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer’s financial performance could be a foretaste of how U.S. chip export controls to China affect tech companies.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2024
  • What is on track to happen in South Korea offers a foretaste of what lies in store for the rest of the world.
    Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Scenes play out with all the portent of a Catholic Mass.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
  • For those who looked, there were signs and portents of core Democratic policies pushed offstage.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Soto, represented by hard-driving super agent Scott Boras, has shown no indication of offering charity to his new employer like Ohtani did.
    David K. Li, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • The company is subject to various risks, including dependence on successful clinical trials, regulatory approvals, and potential competition from other biotechnology firms targeting similar autoimmune disease indications.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The untimely death of Lincoln's son Willie Lincoln More:Bad omens or just misunderstood?
    Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Looking back at their final conversations in retrospect, Morrison now sees omens.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Even if the person never feels ill, that worker should be tested and given the antiviral drug Tamiflu to reduce their risk of ever developing symptoms or passing the virus to close contacts.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Common symptoms include: Cough Fatigue Fever and chills Shortness of breath Read more Election day COVID Cases Update: Map Reveals Return of 'Very High' Water Virus Levels Map Shows States Where Weight Loss Drugs are Most Popular Stressed Out?
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Anyway, the hardware battle is really a harbinger of the next generation of tech systems.
    John Werner, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • For some residents, the changes were a harbinger of what happened in nearby Silver Lake, Atwater Village and Highland Park: lower-income people being priced out of housing and displaced.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • After much soul searching across time, Lilia reads her own fortune through tarot cards and pieces together the clues for the rest of the coven.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024
  • But none of their diagnostic tools offered any clues as to what was causing the man’s symptoms—and his rash kept getting worse.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The New Moon in Virgo, which occurs shortly after Mercury turns direct, presages really big beginnings throughout the zodiac.
    Jennifer Culp, Them, 16 Aug. 2024
  • As the ending of the story perhaps presages, Martha is on the cusp of a change in her life.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 28 July 2024

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“Prefigurement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prefigurement. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

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