Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai, all prefigure NRx urban futures.
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Prefigure
/pɹiːfɪɡjɚ/
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Quite different is the way in which the tomboy girled the rebel narrative. In recent years, queer theorists have taken a deep interest in the tomboy as a prefigure for the butch dyke.
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In his influential commentary (the Moralia) Gregory the Great interpreted the protagonist typologically as a prefigure of Christ and of the Church persecuted.
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