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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
prefigure .
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Zaehner's term prefigures semiotic and postmodern concerns to deconstruct words like 'God' and what they connote for various individuals and groups-e.g. women, visible, invisible as well as outspoken and silent minorities.
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Zaehner's term prefigures semiotic and postmodern concerns to 'deconstruct' words like 'God' and what they connote for various individuals and groups-e.g. women, visible, invisible as well as outspoken and silent minorities. earthpages: Review - 2012: Mayan Prophecy and the Shift of the Ages (DVD) « Earthpages. org -
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Zaehner's term prefigures semiotic and postmodern concerns to deconstruct words like 'God' and what they connote for various individuals and groups-e.g. women, visible, invisible as well as outspoken and silent minorities.
Earthpages.ca - Think Free Earthpages.ca 2010
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Anyway, of course it 'prefigures' things that come in twos.
Archive 2009-12-01 Brian Clegg 2009
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Anyway, of course it 'prefigures' things that come in twos.
The terrible science of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol Brian Clegg 2009
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In blessing the wounds with a kiss, the Christ Child embraces Adam's martyrdom and "prefigures" his own Passion as an adult.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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I also find it amusing that the blurb on the front prefigures another bad library book, “The Secret”.
Greatest Secret Ever Told: Defiant Children « Awful Library Books 2010
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So although this pan-panism serves the plot and prefigures the species-specific occupations shown in the Ape pre/sequels, real-life chances of such coordination, even with augmentation, are frankly nil.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: "Are We Not (as Good as) Men?" Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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In 2005 Liman – of no fixed identity as a director – also made Mr And Mrs Smith, about married top-secret assassins, a premise that prefigures Fair Game so neatly it almost neuters it at the conceptual level before a single shot of the latter is in the can.
Fair Game revisits the George W Bush years but is it too soon? 2011
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I also find it amusing that the blurb on the front prefigures another bad library book, “The Secret”.
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