Object

• society: It does not reflect a simple linear developmental logic, nor does it prefigure a world society or a world community.

• reality: There are, however, certain occasions when art prefigures reality.

• future: In that sense Lafargue both prefigures the future and reflects the elitist Blanquist past of revolutionary thought in France.

Modifying Another Word

• not: Clearly, these arrangements prefigure not the beginnings of a 'united front ' , but a political party of some sort.

• clearly: Nevertheless, the drawing clearly prefigures Picasso's decision to go ahead.

• much: Its concern for the environment prefigured much of the approach of today's Green movements.

• supposedly: The community radio stations supposedly prefigured the imminent reorganization of the whole of society around direct democracy after the anarcho-communist revolution.

Used with why or when

• what: See how David, Jesus ' ancestor, prefigured what happened to Jesus himself?

Preposition: in

• way: This conception prefigured in significant ways the Good Friday Agreement of nearly 30 years later.

• past: Yet, despite their Hegelian modernism, the Situationists believed that the utopian future had been prefigured in the tribal past.

Preposition: by

• potlatch: Despite their Hegelian modernism, they claimed that anarcho-communism had been prefigured by the potlatch: the gift economy of Polynesian tribes.