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pre-echo

British  
/ priːˈɛkəʊ /

noun

  1. something that has preceded and anticipated something else; precursor

  2. a fault in an audio recording in which a sound that is to come is heard too early: on tape sometimes caused by print-through

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Yet her diatribe — essentially, you’re already fading and can no longer carry a team — does have a nice pre-echo of Roy’s later confession about why he left Chelsea.

From New York Times

It is a type of pre-echo of what's to come.

From Salon

Taking up an unlikely position within the rich history of New York City street photography that stretches from Berenice Abbott and Ezra Stoller to Roy DeCarava and Camilo José Vergara, Relph’s collection, published by Pre-Echo Press, might be described as the first post-internet expression of the genre.

From New York Times

The painter Matt Connors, who founded Pre-Echo Press in 2016 to publish books by artists he admires, said that after learning of Relph’s project he would sometimes text him photos of extraterrestrial-looking construction renderings.

From New York Times

DeGeneres was on that show, playing a version of herself; interestingly, in a pre-echo of DeGeneres’ pressing Carey to reveal her pregnancy, she finds herself pressured by Larry to announce on camera whether she’ll be coming out on television.

From Los Angeles Times