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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
prefigure .
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Christ's death is represented as the sacrifice for sin prefigured by the Jewish sacrifices, compare Ro 3: 22-26; 1Co 5: 7, with
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Kraus, who says the Times' op-ed page "prefigured" the blogosphere by three decades by inviting non-staffers to submit content, figured the op-ed editor Charlotte Curtis would allow Levine's drawing, because it was not nearly as critical as Pfaff's copy.
Menachem Wecker: Kissinger Controversy Recalls Provocative Art Piece Menachem Wecker 2011
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Kraus, who says the Times' op-ed page "prefigured" the blogosphere by three decades by inviting non-staffers to submit content, figured the op-ed editor Charlotte Curtis would allow Levine's drawing, because it was not nearly as critical as Pfaff's copy.
Menachem Wecker: Kissinger Controversy Recalls Provocative Art Piece Menachem Wecker 2011
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For God hath abrogated his own (not only such as prefigured
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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In a passage often commented upon, Thucydides wrote of the seesaw battle in Corcyra Corfu in 433 BCE, which prefigured the larger war.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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For Augustine, the murder that founded the first earthly city prefigured another misdeed, the founding of Rome.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Any novel of Nazi Germany or fascist Italy is prefigured in miniature in Stendhal's "Charterhouse of Parma."
In the World of Night and Fog Allan Massie 2011
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World War I followed on the heels of the Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913, which prefigured not only the subsequent atrocities of the twentieth century but its fraternal violence.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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The debates in 1991 prefigured similar debates in 2003, with the difference that they were more openly contested in 1991, but suppressed by "group-think" in 2003.
Geoffrey Wawro: Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part II of II Geoffrey Wawro 2011
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The debates in 1991 prefigured similar debates in 2003, with the difference that they were more openly contested in 1991, but suppressed by "group-think" in 2003.
Geoffrey Wawro: Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part II of II Geoffrey Wawro 2011
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