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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Eliot's witty 1918 truncation of an Arnoldian phrase prefigures the Hollow Men's predicament.
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Nietzsche's achievement is rather to have prefigured so much of twentieth-century thought.
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The dialectic between actual ego and ego-ideal is prefigured here in primordial form.
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The material in these papers is prefigured in several sets of lectures delivered in Cambridge, Mass., from 1865 on.
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They prefigure the society and the civilization to come.