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Lies and evasions about past wars are prefigurative for future wars.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2023

And as the pandemic unfolded its strange monotony and appalling casualties, the mix of stasis and upheaval in Sorey’s music struck me as almost eerily prefigurative of this era in American history.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2021

Working in this way, we will be enacting what Carl Boggs called "prefigurative" politics: creating now the "forms of social relations, decision-making, culture, and human experience that are the ultimate goal."

From Salon • Jul. 19, 2020

Christie, Black, the Clintons, the Trumps, the Trump children: more prefigurative dramatis personae could hardly be concocted.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016

She, that would not suffer at his birth even a prefigurative or mimic degradation for her awful ward, far less could be supposed to suffer the real degradation attaching to the non-development of his powers.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various