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# How to pronounce "prefigured" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/prɛfɪgʌrɛd/`
- **Native Audio Recording**: [Listen to Audio Clip](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/En-us-prefigured.ogg/En-us-prefigured.ogg.mp3)
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **pre·fi·gu·red**
- **Parts of Speech**: verb
- **VERB**: simple past and past participle of prefigure

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "prefigured" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "famously go a previous talk here in the sheldonian in February 2016 prefigured alphago winning 41 against former world champion liso doll just a month later games have proven to be a great training ground for developing and testing AI algorithms but"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU6HuhrC65k&t=174s)

### Example 2
> "Persian is prefigured by the Trojan War to the mind of Herodotus or as The Narrative of the first part of the Enid is intended by"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Yb3D7_9Zs&t=80s)

### Example 3
> "of man were prefigured ages before any of them actually came into being no"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 122:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pqbbS8lt_c&t=7327s)

### Example 4
> "The American Civil War was prefigured by roughly 20 years of ferocious debate on the whole gamut of issues from slavery itself to states' rights"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 20:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3rhUZPNqX0&t=1227s)

### Example 5
> "the next social Revolution which a decade ago prefigured the use of digital media as a tool of collective action as"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:55](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GwXDDJdBFo&t=115s)

### Example 6
> "Because some people have ended up thinking Trump is great and others happened. But in your case that split was already prefigured by the split between the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. So I don't think that for publications like that the collapse of trust is so directly in their market."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 62:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOLfg5mkBzY&t=3738s)

### Example 7
> "It's the death of human beings being actually prefigured or maybe encoded into this very clean, very dignified"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 17:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoZfBpjS_zs&t=1033s)

### Example 8
> "Coming on to "Codex Amiatinus," this is the book that has been prefigured in what Claire was saying to you."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 11:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoYcPZv0bHA&t=678s)

### Example 9
> "modern interpretations-- be they Whig or Marxist or revisionist-- all of them can be prefigured in the views of some contemporaries themselves."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 23:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPwuul8J-Os&t=1421s)

### Example 10
> "It’s the idea that there is a definitive structure towards which history is evolving and which will be the final home of the human spirit. And the other heresy one might call the Sartrean heresy or the romantic heresy or the existentialist heresy and it was prefigured by the mystics within Judaism, Christianity and Islam. According to this heresy every structure is death to the spirit."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 14:02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmZXUDEocxA&t=842s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [pre](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/pre), [preabdomen](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabdomen), [preabdominal](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabdominal), [preablated](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preablated), [preablation](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preablation), [preabortal](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabortal), [preabortion](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabortion), [preabsorb](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabsorb)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "prefigured" correctly?
"prefigured" is pronounced `/prɛfɪgʌrɛd/`. Syllable breakdown: **pre·fi·gu·red**.

### What does "prefigured" mean in context?
simple past and past participle of prefigure

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